Jul 09, 2010 20:42
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here]It looked like the hallway opened up over here. Guess he couldn't expect to just run around and follow a linear corridor forever, but now he had to figure out which way he wanted to go. Normally, he'd just run down whatever hallway he happened to lay eye on first, but again, he was running a liiittle blind here
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His entrance here was met with a scream, which wasn't something he was exactly unused to, but this time it wasn't deserved and wasn't directed at him and he wasn't in the form of someone else who was infinitely more threatening looking than his vessel was. But vocal was good. Vocal was how questions got answered.
Slick as oil, he slithered into the conversation with, "What're you screaming about?" then an "oh" followed by the thought of next vessel is definitely going to be more threatening. And taller. Add to mental notes.
And here he thought Sam Winchester was the Sasquatch to out-sasquatch all sasquatches. Have a low whistle of appreciation, kid. It's all for you.
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He immediately winced and threw a hand up to try and block out the light. He couldn't get a real good look at them, but it sounded like a young girl and a guy. Neither of them were telling him put his hands up or get down on the ground or anything, so he was gonna take a wild guess and say they weren't soldiers. Actually, it sounded more like he'd been the one to startle them. Or at least the girl. Whoops.
"Sorry. Didn't think anyone else was wandering around." He was trying to sound lighthearted despite the apology. No hard feelings, you know? He was also still squinting, trying to get a good look at them. "You guys okay?"
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"Hmph. I'm just fine, and you better be glad that this is, too," Rita retorted, making a point of slipping the ring safely onto her finger. If he paid any attention to that announcement at the start of the night, he'd understand what it was that they just narrowly avoided.
"What are you doing here, anyway?" The question sounded almost like an accusation, though it was really just Rita's usual tone of voice. She was asking honestly, actually. The big guy looked like he might be useful to have around, so maybe he could accompany her in her escape. "...That goes for both of you."
The mage noticed the other man there as soon as he spoke up, though it wasn't until now that she glanced over her shoulder to get a look at him. Compared to the giant in front of her, he looked like a fairly normal person, though apparently not one who could mind his own business. Who invited him?
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But aside from that, he recognized the giant's question as... pretty weird. Actually, both were kind of odd, from the sounds of them. Though it was clear he wasn't somewhere interesting like a secret government base or the Batcave, those particular questions suggested that they shouldn't be here. Y'know, permanent no-negotiation deaths aside.
Slipping the stolen glasses onto his nose, he broke a few vertebrae in order to look the guy in the face. "Is there a reason we shouldn't be?" Though if he was on earth - which was a pretty clear bet, seeing as humans - there could be any number of ghosts or zombies or flesh-eating cannibals or wendigos hiding in the wings waiting to pounce. Now that'd be a good spot of fun right there.
Even demons. He could totally go for some demons right now. That'd boost the ol' mojo tenfold.
"I was just, y'know, wondering aimlessly. Seemed like a good idea considering I'm fresh out of maps and a solid sense of direction."
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Riiight. Running with it. (If he was in a building full of hunters, he might just have to kill himself. Again. Going in knowing he was gonna die was kinda like assisted suicide, right? They didn't seem to have the attitude, though... not that he'd met a lot of hunters face-to-face. Easy to imagine they had a swagger, though. Some of 'em did.)
"Hold on a sec," he said, flinging his hands up in front of him. "Can I get a Cliff Notes, here? Head Doctor? Portal rings?" Oh. That thing he'd heard earlier had... probably been important.
His luck.
From his experiences, head doctors plus institutions didn't exactly equal hospitals. He'd been in his share of hospitals; not for the patients, usually, but there were a lot of nice, corrupted staff in 'em. It had the hospital-y feel and the smell of bleach and the white walls, but usually they didn't have mon -
- okay, they usually did have monsters, but that was beside the point ( ... )
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"That's basically right," Rita confirmed, adding to that bare-bones explanation. "By day, they run this place like a mental hospital - and we're the patients. At night, it's like this. I don't know what they're trying to do with us here, but I don't plan on sticking around long enough to find out."
Did Rita want to know why some bastard abducted her from her home and took her to another planet where people treated her like she was crazy? Damn straight, she did. But the full truth couldn't be found while they were confined within the Head Doctor's walls. They had to get to somewhere beyond his control, and then they could do what they needed to. Gathering ( ... )
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This would've made a good television show.
"Why the hell not?" he said with a shrug; instant gratifying teleportation wasn't a new bone to him, and he was interested to see how a ring was gonna manage to move something like him - plus two other humans. Maybe it didn't discriminate between species or something. "Let's hit it."
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Like the kid, Snow brought his own fist up in front of him, obviously more than ready to go. "Alright! Sounds like a plan. Let's do this!"
Of course, he... didn't really know what it was they were doing or how they were going to do it or what. But they knew it had to do with the ring, right? So...
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"Everybody, stay close," Rita told them as she turned to face the nearest wall. She wasn't sure what the range of effect was with the ring, but she didn't want to end up leaving people behind because of an easily avoided mistake.
So it was back to the lake again. This time, Rita was going to be expecting the jarring transition, so it was likely to go much smoother than before. They'd just have to get their bearings and swim to shore. They had a plan. This was going to be easy.
"Get ready to swim," she warned the two men as she pulled back her arm, preparing herself. Her fist lingered there for a few seconds as she took a deep breath...
...then slammed it into the wall, shattering the jeweled ring.
[teleporting to here]
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