[Nightshift 35] Stairwell By Nurses' Station 1-B

[rope_victim]

[From here]Miku pushed open the door to get away from the smell wafting down the main corridor. She swallowed some of the bile down that threatened to surge up into her throat and sighed. Her face felt hot, and her hands seemed clammy. Miku worried if there was something she would see tomorrow night, and hoped she didn't know the victim

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[tender_cruelty]

[From here]

Allelujah carefully slipped into the stairwell, peering up into the darkness as he shone his torch around, making sure there was nothing nasty waiting for him upstairs. It seemed to be clear so he began the ascent.

[tender_cruelty]

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[notmyfather]

( from here)

"And I'll warn you now, it's best to be on guard upstairs," the young elven lord went on. "I've had my worst encounters on the second floor. Things up there seem to be bigger and more dangerous. Which I suppose makes sense - there are more useful rooms and objects to be found up on the second floor."

[wildunderstress]

Jamie listened to Valyn's explanation with an expression of ever-growing bewilderment. Spells? Was the guy serious? Then again, the little light was quite unlike anything Jamie'd ever seen before; he couldn't come up with a better explanation for it. And this place was pretty weird to begin with - who was to say magic didn't really exist here?

The teen's brow furrowed as he followed their guide into the stairwell, and his contemplation of the mage-light was quickly abandoned. "What, uh...what kind of things are up there?" he asked, a little nervously.

[wild_right_hand]

So he called it a spell, huh? Must be like an RPG character, then, not a fighting game type. Then it would probably be technique or skill or the ever-popular super move. Tokito didn't play very many RPGs, though, so he was out of luck in figuring this place out with video game knowledge. Crap. Back to letting Jamie ask questions, and occasionally interjecting his own. "What kind of useful rooms and objects?"

[notmyfather]

"Beasts," Valyn said, simply. He didn't know the names for the creatures, and few of them resembled anything he was familiar with. Not even his people had created monsters on the scale of what roamed the institute. And they were known for that sort of thing.

"Maintenance rooms with various small machines, tools and utilities, rooms where they keep items from the lives they tell us we led, medicinal supplies and things of that nature," he went on, taking the stairs carefully. "You should be able to find something to use as a weapon."

He paused at the top of the stairs, silently waiting to ensure his companions were ready.

[kanpekinasenshi]

[from here]

She slowed her pace as they walked up the stairs. It wasn't that she was afraid of tripping, but it would be easy for something to startle them in the darkness. Or, for that matter, easy for Seiya to be surprised in the narrower passageway.

Even after the previous night's suggestion that moving faster would result in less attacks, Seiya was more inclined to keep an eye open and see any attacks coming if possible. She didn't comment on it to Michiru, only listening closely to be sure Michiru was still following and that there was no tell-tale swish of air to duck.

[tranquil_seas]

Michiru was indeed still following, though her thoughts were a little more preoccupied in the wake of seeing such a gruesome sight. She wanted to ask if that was a common occurrence--if they would be seeing more of that. If Usagi had run across whatever did that... Michiru quickly stifled that particular thought. She was already worried enough about the missing girl. There was no need to jump to any horrific conclusions.

The fact that there could be creatures listening for them forced Michiru to keep her silence. That, and she wasn't sure that she wanted Seiya to know exactly how unnerved she was. No, she'd ask someone else when morning came, if their current path didn't answer her question by the end of the night.

[youlackmascara]

[from here]

Itachi proceeded up the stairs quickly, assuming Jiraiya would follow at the same pace. He needed plenty of time to investigate the upper floor.

[youlackmascara]

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