Night 18: Soccer Field/Courtyard

[0ver_the_moon]

( Coming from here.Haru approached the door cautiously, having moved ahead of the others. Pausing to listen for any sounds, he waited for a moment, but all was quiet, except the faint sound of voices of the others down the hall behind him. Not waiting for them to catch up, he reached out and tested the handle. It turned easily and he pushed the door

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[dead_draven]

Eric followed after, into the dark. It settled on him like a familiar blanket, comforting him as he thought over what Maes had said. A prisoner? For the first time, his situation was beggining to mean something, and he didn't like it at all.

"But I've got somewhere to be, you see," he whispered to himself. "People need to die, and I have someone to meet in the clouds..."

The crow swooped out the door behind him and in the night, following at some distance above, obviously elated to be outside again. Eric matched pace with Haru, walking beside him. "Is there somewhere in particular you're heading for, or is this just a wandering sort of journey?"

[0ver_the_moon]

"Shhh," Haru hushed him, his eyes having adjusted to the dark as he scanned the length of well-maintained field they now found themselves on. Haru was quite certain he'd never seen this part of the hospital before. Where the hell were they? Was this an actual game field? "There are nasty things outside this place at night. Lets make sure they're not hunting us before we go wandering off blind."

[dead_draven]

He glanced around. "It looks like a normal field to me," he said mildly. "But it doesn't feel like one. Too much death in the weeds."

He stared out over the grassy field, eyes tracing its lines as it receded into the distance. "Far too much death," he murmured. "What sort of nasty things might they be?"

[0ver_the_moon]

"Squirrels," Haru retorted wryly, still finding ironic amusement in that. "Among other things.

[grosse_sklaven]

((Coming from the previous thread, here.))

"Yes, let's continue on," Adelheid nodded as he picked up his tools, popping his back and trying to ignore the light-headed feeling. He'd recover soon enough, it was just a matter of staying healthy until then.

...he had to wonder what he was doing, though. Wandering off alone with a Freeman-type? Leaving a helpless Haru in the hands of the military? Actually trusting a military officer with someone who had a bloodline curse? Either this place was getting to him more than he had thought... or Hughes just wormed beneath his defenses, somehow. He certainly didn't act like an officer, but normally that didn't matter. Those from his world seemed nice and personable, until they were crossed, and then...

He shook his head, impressed by Eric's light landing, and forced himself back to the task at hand. Adelheid couldn't afford to be distracted, not now. "It seems there's a lake over there," he gestured with his light, avoiding Eric's eyes as the man had requested, "let's make our way there for

[dead_draven]

He nodded, heading off in that direction. "Lake, pond, pool. We'll have no ladies delivering weapons to us, though, considering our luck so far." He said this flippantly, as though everything that came off of his tongue was common knowledge and should be treated as such, even if that wasn't the case. "Maybe some sort of mutant squid, if what that nice young cow boy said about the squirrels is true...?"

[grosse_sklaven]

"'Ladies delivering weapons to us'?" Adelheid paused for a second, confused by that random comment. What sort of reality did this guy come from? "...sorry, it just caught me off-guard. In my own world, women tend to deliver only the sharp end of their weapons."

As he continued on, though, he remembered a comment that had been delivered previously, in the asylum he had been in only a few hours earlier. "I think it would be more likely that fish are in the pond. I'd advise against swimming." Even as he said that, though, a faintly amused smile appeared on his face. "Makes me wonder if the staff has regulation swimwear. They seem to have everything else."

[dead_draven]

"Just a myth," he said, that ever-present smile widening slightly. "The lady of the lake. They say she gave a man the power to rule over an entire country just by handing him a weapon. Says something about how power is gained, don't you think?"

"I'm not much of a swimmer anyway," he said, waving his hand vaguely. "Unless you count rain. So there are staff here? I was beggining to think the place might be abandoned aside from you three."