Night 56: F11-20 Hallway

[fourstonewalls]

Well, that was ominous. No announcement at all? Lana sat on the edge of her bed in the darkness for a few minutes, waiting to see if Aguilar was merely drawing out the opening of night, but after the locks had clicked open, there was only silence. Lana switched on her flashlight, and picked up the things she'd laid out during dinner. Her coat

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F20

[stylebythemile]

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Suddenly, the power went out.

"--Ah!" The interruption made Sonia's heart pound even faster, and she quickly stood up from the bed, eyes wide and alert. Her gaze darted toward that 'click', which sounded like it came from the door. It was just as Mokona had told her! Didn't she also say someone was meant to give the order? Sonia still didn't hear anything from the speaker. Maybe there had been a technical failure.

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[my_108_skills]

Mokona was still getting used to how food tasted when it had to be chewed this much, but even so, she managed to finish her meal within a minute or two of starting it. She let out a satisfied sigh and hopped to her feet, a few crumbs sticking to her chin as she scurried closer to her roommate and moved to take one of her hands again. Even in this body, one of her special skills was to tell how people truly felt - and right now, she knew Sonia was trying to be brave, even though she was in a very scary situation! Mokona wanted to make her feel better, even if it was just by reminding her she wasn't alone in this new place

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[stylebythemile]

Sonia carefully felt her way to the door, where Mokona was standing. "No, Mokona." Her tone was gentle but serious as she put a hand on the girl's shoulder. "You should stay here."

When her fingertips brushed against cold metal, she took hold of the handle and... Okay, the door opened as promised. But was it safe to go out there? Through the small crack between the door and its frame, she peered out into the hallway. Other prisoners were leaving their cells, or so it seemed. Some of them had flashlights. Relying on the light they provided, Sonia swiftly stuck her head out and checked if anything dangerous was waiting for them out there. There wasn't a guard or monster that she could see.

She shut the door quietly and turned again to her roommate. "It's too dark out there," she whispered. "If there are monsters like you say, I'll need a flashlight like the ones they've got. Do you know where I can find one?"

[my_108_skills]

Mokona watched her roommate peek out the doorway, taking the moment to test whether or not her power to sense auras had returned with the night- she brightened as she felt the familiar hum of Fai's energy several hallways away, as well as many other, less familiar, sources of magical energy spread throughout the institute. She was far more used to this sort of awareness - being human made her feel very detached, but now, she felt like she could know everything that was happening

F18

[lookitmemama]

Without a History Club mission, Asuka felt a bit aimless tonight. She did not have a very good sense of the institute and what lay outside the regular hot spots. Not that this would impede her, of course! If the redhead had to strike out on her own, so be it! She received more trouble on missions than she ever did by herself, so this was probably a good opportunity to release some of the stress she had been feeling the last few days with Okita and Taura.

Grabbing her red jersey that Junpei had given her, she put it on over her button-up shirt and collected her baseball bat, radio, and flashlight. She didn't have enough hands for everything, but Asuka was not going anywhere without her radio tonight. After that particularly juicy broadcast of Marc and Landel (Oh my God they were working together! Whaaat?), she wasn't going to miss their happenings for the world. The second child had an elbow to spare for the radio handle

F17

[cryingweapon]

Once again, Chise woke up and found herself to be the only occupant in the room. The rumpled bed across from hers showed signs that Renamon had already left, probably on a mission. The day's trip to Doyleton certainly provided a pleasant change in environment, despite the increase of guards.

So far on the bulletin board, there hasn't been any plans to overthrow the Head Doctor or ways to return to one's original home. With the military take-over and the Head Doctor's 'distaste' of Aguilar, it wouldn't hurt to locate the doctor and negotiate an offer that would benefit both him and the patients. In any case, testing her 'teleporting' ring would lead her into the right direction.

After a minute of hitting the ring against any hard surface while wearing it, she slipped it off and crushed it against her foot.

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[cryingweapon]

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[roseoverture]

[From here]

The only other information she got from the radio was a confirmation that the ballroom was indeed in the basement, and something about Marc's equipment having belonged to a dead man. Nothing that Utena really needed to worry about right now, then.

Himemiya's room, F20, was right there on the corner as she turned in to their old hallway. "Himemiya!" she said as she burst into the room, hoping to see her friend's sleeping form there. No such luck. A search of the closets and drawers revealed nothing either; none of Himemiya's things were there. "Damn it," she said through clenched teeth, rushing out.

She spent the rest of nightshift searching every room in the female block that would open for her, not even caring if she woke anyone else (though, as it happened, no one did; sleeps were deep in Landel's Institute, apparently). Still no luck, however. There was no trace of either Himemiya or her things.

"Damn it, Himemiya. Where did they take you?" were the last exhausted words Utena got out before the night turned to