Night 52: Main Hall, 2-West

[hes_deadjim]

[from here with Spock]The doctor jerked with surprise. Spock seemed to appear right at his elbow, and he'd be damned if his heart hadn't set to racing. He'd just been just starting to think that maybe that encounter with that statue was a fluke, and there'd be no surprises down here, and then that damned Vulcan had to go ahead and see if he could

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[toxicspiderman]

[from here]

The hallway was still a hallway and not a digestive tract, and better yet, no one had thrown up or bled out on the floor, so dinner could stay put.  Neither of those were reasons to linger., so S.T. didn't.  It was time to dive into the belly of the beast

[herr_inspektor]

The little things seemed to jump out at Inspector Lunge under the harsh lighting of the stairwell- all of L's movements seemed to lag all the more, particularly in contrast with Taylor's light-footed flight up the stairs ahead of them. That he could think about, at least. Can't sit still for long? That haste from before- that wasn't professionalism so much as not wanting to waste time. Either one sat well with Lunge; who knew how much longer of the night was left, knowing the fickle way time seemed to express itself here?

At any rate, it looked as though this wasn't just L calling in a favour: they'd all undergone some sort of session. Of course, if Taylor thought that he was going to discuss his own experiences so readily and in such a public place, he had another thing coming- even if the mention of injections might possibly have induced a twitch under his eye

[quarter_english]

L appreciated Taylor's caution, but it didn't stop him from making a check of his own as he passed through the door. Nothing in any direction--nothing of note, for the moment, anyway--shattered glass on the floor, hanging fluorescent tubes, the occasional flicker. They would be cutting to the left, covering a short stretch of corridor, and then taking a right turn

[toxicspiderman]

[back from here]

There had been something wrong when he'd walked past Ryuzaki and Lunge. S.T. hadn't bothered to figure it out where maiming and chemiluminescent hairstyles were all the rage. He rewound a few frames.

The shadows. He'd turned around. The other two men hadn't been seasicking it up. Heroic postures all around, until S.T. had turned tail. But the light had had other ideas. He held up the pipe. A single black demarcator cut the world in half. He wiggled it. It wiggled back. Maybe it had just been chlorofluorocarbon fumes from Howell's hairspray. Or the dude liked doing his own special effects.

[herr_inspektor]

[from here]Out of the hallway, Lunge realised to his annoyance that he was far more aware of the beating of his own heart than he should have been. A pointless waste of energy. He swiftly relocated his attention to his surroundings- the sound of gunfire rattled down the hallway from their right, along with more general sounds of a fight. Another brainwashed patient? Provided he was right about them not chasing patients out of their areas they would be safe where they were, but they needed to keep moving if they didn't want to run out of time. L would catch up with them, he was sure. If not- well. He'd already thought it once before that night. If he couldn't keep up or deliberately chose to stay, he wasn't worth waiting for

[quarter_english]

[From here.]

Taylor and Lunge were a little ahead of L, so he tried to keep to as brisk a pace as he could; the rush of adrenaline that had been caused by the events of the last few minutes helped. As he moved away from the area where he had been held during the "sleep study," though, and away from what he supposed he was meant to interpret as a proximate threat of being torn to pieces, he found that the most immediate feeling was a slight relaxation of tension. He wasn't out of danger, but for the moment, the hazards were generalized, less personal.

He watched his shadow swirl along the wall as he walked, but he couldn't afford to pay much attention to it. The corridor was already empty, and they hadn't agreed on their next destination. There was gunfire ahead of him--Lunge and Taylor wouldn't have gone that way; they had probably gone back the way they came. The stairwell, then.

He made good time.

[To here.]