Night 56: Cafeteria

[scarletspeedstr]

[from here]So far so good. They'd made it to the cafeteria without either of them getting attacked or horribly maimed (again) or anything. Now if they could just get as far as the kitchen without anything else happening? Wally would count this night a win

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[ninelivesonce]

[from here]

As soon as she cleared the doors, Taura turned around. Rita, no matter how fast she moved, would be at least a few paces behind. She held up the throwing star and let it sneak past the doors, fishing for shots, and using its polished surface as a reflector. She couldn't see faces in it, but she could certainly see another blast of ki in time to duck further back.

[bodhiandspirit]

Rita was quick to follow, but her pace slowed soon after entering the room. It was embarrassing, but that one fireball really did take a lot out of her. So long as they didn't run into another obstacle too soon, she would probably recover soon, though.

Looking back once more to confirm that they weren't being followed, Rita closed the door. "That was ridiculous," she grumbled with another heavy sigh. She took a few steps forward, shining her flashlight around the room to check for danger, before speaking again. "... Well, whatever. The kitchen's just past the food counter, right?" Having only spent a short time at the institute, Rita wasn't intimately familiar with the building's layout, but this much was common sense.

[ninelivesonce]

"In a way, isn't fighting always ridiculous?." They were all human, after all. They should be working together. That was about as philosophical as she could afford to get when they were now deeper behind enemy lines, and still in an easy place for an ambush.

She jogged around the counter. "Looks clear!" No more ambushes, and so far, nothing unusual at all, beyond that first broadcast.

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