Night 56: Main Hallway, 1-Center
[ from here]Tolten tried to seem confident as he took the lead, proceeding further into the dark corridors. There had been nothing overtly threatening so far, but his heart was racing in his chest even so. He couldn't shake a sense of lurking danger, of shadowing hidden fear. He tried to tell himself he was being foolish, but experience told him
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Lightning had little other reason to be here that wasn't just approaching the entry lobby right inside the front door, and so as quickly and cautiously as possible, that's exactly what she did, scanning the area with the narrow, yellowish beam of her lighting device and keeping a firm but easy grip on the hilt of the short sword in her other hand.
.... Of course, the set-up was, needless to say, by far against what she would consider ideal. She needed a proper sheath- not just for the sword, but especially for the knife at her side as well. If she was required to really move with the knife still stuck in the jacket, then the possibility of losing it and potentially hurting herself in the process was... very high. It was all just barely below the threshold of too risky entirely.
Perhaps she'd look into it somehow, but for now... she let out a soft breath, then pushed open the door to the entry room, stepping through as quietly as she could.
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As if Lightning really needed anything more to worry about? The young woman shook her head once she'd evacuated the front lobby, shining her light back and forth to make sure nothing had changed in the short time she'd spent away.
Of course, her problem now was the possibility that something could have changed which was no longer obvious. Clenching her teeth for what felt like the hundredth time already that night, she quickly moved back the way she'd originally come from, her attention to her surroundings about as high as it would go.
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