Nightshift 25: Hallway outside the Sun Room and Entry Room

[i_slay_giants]

( From hereJack rounded the corner from the residence block and headed towards the entry room. If the map was correct, it was across from the sun room, and Jack knew where THAT was, at least. He approached the sun room door, turning to look across the hall

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[heirloomtea]

[From here.]

There was a wide-open door here. Chloe peered in and saw that it led into some kind of lounge. There were patients here too. She sighed and kept going.

[inloveordead]

[ From here.]

Well, this was pointless.

She had no chance of finding the place where the dead were kept on her own, she realised, panning the torch left and right in front of her, half-interested, half-irritable. She would need to find someone else. Someone who knew their way around.

Oh, where was Lust when she was needed?

The beam of light lit up the back of a slim, wild-looking young woman, moving quite quickly away from her - she appeared to be on her own, and not in any real danger. Well, it was worth a try.

"Hello!" she called, sharply, intending the woman to stop. "Who goes there?"

[heirloomtea]

Chloe turned sharply around, her flashlight landing on an attractive blonde woman.

"Excuse me?"

[inloveordead]

EVA examined the face of the woman. Smart, sharp. Very young, she thought. In her teens; hardly a woman. Why were they taking so many teenagers here? Probably so that they'd be fitter for the experiments, she thought. How sick -

"Hello," she said again, much softer. "I was wondering if you could help me."

[fuyunohanabi]

[From here]

Rangiku moved quickly, but not too fast as to leave her companions behind. The Sun Room, thankfully, was one place she didn't need any directions or maps to find. She stopped outside the door, frowning with concentration. The doors were wide open and she could hear movement from inside. It didn't sound favourable.

She peered inside, around the corner of the door and then pulled back. No. Not good. That woman... whatever she was it wasn't normal. Most likely working for Landel.

Rangiku turned back to her companions, a serious look on her face. "There's something in there. We need to cross the room as quickly as possible and not give it a chance to catch us. Looks like a woman in a kimono."

[vaporism]

Oh great, was this one of those monsters people talked about?

Demyx nodded in agreement with Rangiku. He definitely didn't want to come head to head with it, whatever it was. If they could get through there fast enough, maybe they wouldn't have to. Demyx could only hope.

He moved back from the door a bit, towards the middle of the group. Well, he definitely wasn't going to go first!

[bond_off_lame]

Axel, who'd been standing a foot or so behind Rangiku, chuckled when Demyx started to shimmy himself back in an attempt to wiggle out of being first.

"You are such a woman." He commented before leaning on his crutch to steal a peak outside the door. There was indeed something out there, and Axel found himself moseying back in so the thing couldn't see him. If there was something he'd prefer it was to reach their destination before getting attacked. Or not get attacked at all if such a thing were possible anyway.

"Right. Whenever everyone's ready." And with that he took a glance over his shoulder at the others.

[numberii]

"Lemme go in first," Xigbar said as he moved over to the door. "I can get out of her way better'n any of you. Who knows? Maybe I'll get a reward if I perform all right. ...and no, Axel, I don't want any from you."

He grinned as he looked at Number VIII, easily laughing as he slid between Axel and the door, then into the Sun Room itself. He'd spent the better part of the trip to said room trying to get Tatsumi to break out of that polite mode, which meant that he'd just have to try again after Tatsumi owed him a little something-something.

Besides, what was the worst that could happen?

((Slipping into here. ))

[damned_monsters]

[from here]

River fled like a frightened animal, not looking back; instead, her eyes were busy watching for an avenue of escape.

Or, to be more accurate, a place where she and her would-be brother could have some quality time together, undisturbed.

[heavens_too_far]

When River ran, Dias didn't think twice about following; from the way she'd looked, it didn't seem unreasonable to assume that the temporary lucidity she'd been granted had worn off, possibly as a result of whatever fight she'd gotten into that had resulted in the blood on her. If she was running even from Dias, she was obviously spooked beyond all reason. But more than that, if she were injured - or, hell, even if she wasn't; whether the blood was hers or not, Dias had a horrible suspicion that it might attract monsters either way - he could hardly afford to let her go tearing across the institute.

In any other situation, he would have been more cautious. But when it came to his little sisters, protective instincts overrode all others.

[damned_monsters]

River slowed for only a split second before ducking into the nearest door, slamming it behind her.

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[i_slay_giants]

( From here)

Jack noticed that there were actually people running around in the hall this time. 'Way to come help with the screaming bitch from hell,' he thought bitterly to himself. Then again, if any of them HAD shown up, they might have laid claim to HIS key. Worthless as it was at the moment, the Fable knew better than anyone else how a key was never as useless as it appeared at first glance.

Not really acknowledging the others, the giant killer went on his way.

[i_slay_giants]

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[he_never_dies]

[[From here.]]

In this hallway he actually heard voices. The second thing he noticed was the staircase just across from him, and he thought that perhaps the second floor would do him some favors and offer him a window to slip out of. He had withstood longer falls than that for much less, though the prospect wasn't a comfortable one. He poised himself just out of view and glanced around the corner to make sure that whoever was there wasn't looking his way, and then he slipped across the short distance between himself and the stairway.

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