Night 51: Entry Room

[buryyourdemons]

[from here]And another room opened up, smaller, with five doors to add to the one he came through. Two seemed to lead to other rooms inside this one. One, would open into the hallway he was in previously. The one across would continue unknown, and on his right there was one. Further from the sun room, as he sought

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[autophoenix]

Empty was nice. Empty was reassuring, because if it was empty, it meant there were no monsters, and it also meant it was just Peter who'd get to see her as she struggled to compose herself again. She was pleased that he'd let it go, it meant he either hadn't noticed or he was smart enough to accept that sometimes things got a little too overwhelming for her to handle. Him thanking her made her feel better, at least. Marginally. She knew it was excessive and not necessarily wholly genuine -- he never would have felt the need to go to the file room in the first place if she hadn't wanted to, he obviously wasn't that invested in it -- but she felt just a little bit less helpless for it, and it helped her gather up the motivation to follow him out of the room.

As he explained the plan, she nodded her understanding, pacing after him and trying to work up a mental diagram of where they needed to be. She hadn't seen the upstairs of the institute yet, she realized, and she had to wonder if it would be that simple to get to the rooms. Wouldn't they have some kind of security? Sure, the rooms were tightly locked, as Peter had told her, but it felt … too easy, almost. Still, she wasn't going to complain about things erring on the side of simplistic, so she just reached for the door to the main hallway, pulling it open and holding it for Peter, heading through the doorway and back in the direction of the stairs with him.

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