Nightshift 49: 2nd Floor Staff Lounge

[guardiancomplex]

( From here.Touya stepped through the door and stopped. He'd been in quite a few closets in his time of various kinds, and this was not a closet. Not unless Landel started storing couches and paintings of puppies in his closets. Did he take a wrong turn

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[winged_moon]

Yue had hesitated for just an extra moment longer before moving through the door, making certain that his wings were folded as tightly as possible before he entered the storage closet. As he recalled there were quite a few shelves and the space between them was adequate for a single person walking through but his wings would be somewhat awkward in the situation. Not that he intended to dismiss them, of course; even if he would normally have done so when going inside this wasn't "normal" and he didn't want to be without them when he didn't have to.

As soon as he stepped through the door, however, the door closed behind him without being touched, and the guardian's wings half-spread again in surprise -- and found no resistance. Instead of the storage closet with rows of shelves they were in... what was this? It looked like some kind of lounge area, and it wasn't a room he could recall entering. He glanced around with a small frown, taking a cautious step farther into the room. "I don't know this room," he observed warily, forgetting the small fight he'd attempted to start in the hallway in favor of this somewhat baffling occurrence.

[giftofstars]

... That's weird. Either the institute had an extremely comfortable and open storage closet or they had entered some kind of lounge, and by Yue's reaction, it sounded like it was the latter. Maybe it was for the staff members? "Onii-chan, did we go through the wrong door?" asked Sakura, still looking around in amazement.

Although it definitely was easy for Sakura to make such a mistake, both Touya and Yue usually weren't as spacey as she was. Was something going on? Regardless of whether or not they had made a mistake though, they probably needed to backtrack a bit and make sure they knew where they were. It would be bad to get lost at night... and during a storm... and when monsters were about...

[guardiancomplex]

"I... don't think so," Touya mused, looking around the room. He could have sworn he'd entered the door marked 'Janitor's Closet', but it was dark and he was in a hurry to get where they were going. He blamed his nerves on the storm.

Touya walked further into the room, looking at the painting on the wall with a slight frown. Why would such a cushy room be next to a janitor's closet, though? It didn't make sense. Looking back at one of the tables, he spotted a pack of cigarettes behind a lamp and a half-full pack of gum under a chair. Hey, people were always asking for cigarettes on the board--it could be a good trade item.

"Must have taken a wrong turn," Touya said with a shrug, scooping up the pack of cigarettes and crawling down onto the floor to fetch the gum. "Let's find the right door."

[winged_moon]

None of them knew where they were, then. Yue was quite certain the door Touya opened had been the door to one of the closets, but this most certainly was not a closet. Nor did it fit the general "storage" theme of the other rooms in the hallway, so... what was it doing here? There'd been that brief moment of disorientation as he'd stepped through the door, which made him wonder if something odd was going on.

"Renovations" indeed.

He watched the corners of the room warily as Touya poked around, then gave a small nod and turned back to the door. Maybe if he opened it then it would go to the right place. But where exactly was the right place from here?

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