Night 50: Main Hallway, 2-East

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Unfortunately, the staircase door was more than eager to announce Tifa's presence onto the second floor.

So much for the element of surpriseHopefully nothing big was lumbering around close enough to have heard the loud creak and the click that followed, despite her painstaking efforts to close it as slowly as possible. Keeping her

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[36_24_35]

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Not quite sure whether or not turning her flashlight off would benefit her or harm her more, Tifa held it in the closet as she crept out further. Nothing else bumped in the night, the brunette wondered if she had only imagined it or if she had simply hit something in the closet. Regardless, she made sure one of her hands was empty with only her knife. It wasn't very big, but one jab in the right place would take a monster down.... as long as it wasn't too big.

[damned_nurses]

After a point it was only expected that so much noise would attract what'd been lurking in the darkness. The loud bangs and clangs that resonated through the hall immediately caught the attention of the figure at the other end, the disfigured woman lurching forward in response. The nurse had slowly been making her way to the closet since Tifa stepped inside, and so by the time she looked back out her opponent was barely three yards away. Scalpel-like fingers outstretched and raised high in the air, the nurse suddenly rushed forward and swiped her hand downward in an attempt to slash Tifa.

[Brenda]

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The sudden appearance pushed Tifa back into the closet with a startled gasp, her feet pedaling back as quickly as possible to steer clear of those claws. A sneaker hit the lip of something smooth and sent her on her butt in a puddle of something wet, flashlight clattering to the floor and rolling off without her.

This was not good, obviously. Her heart was still pounding against her ribcage from the initial surprise that put her in this predicament. And then the friendly advice of "Don't go anywhere by yourself" fluttered through her mind. Well, if she lived through this night, Tifa would gladly take it to heart. Until then, she needed a plan. The fighter was at a disadvantage and pinned into a closed space. She needed room, so all she could think of was to pull out the roll of garbage bags and hurl them at the nurse's head, hoping it would push her back or at least allow her to crawl out of the way gracelessly.

[damned_nurses]

The nurse's scalpels sliced into nothing but air when her victim staggered back, taking a moment to recover with every intention of lunging after Tifa for the second time. However, she staggered back herself when the latter threw that roll of garbage bags, the object temporarily distracting the disfigured monster as she stumbled back.

[mitase]

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Once out of the hallway Hanatarou paused for a quick, nervous glance around at the area. From the sounds coming from the open area to the left there was someone guarding that section tonight -- though it almost definitely wasn't the ghost-woman again. So maybe he'd made the right decision after all, even if it was for a little different reason?

He shrugged that off after a second and motioned toward the hallway they needed to take, which was fortunately away from the sounds of fighting. "Down there," he said, voice low even if they were almost definitely out of hearing range of the combatants. "That's where the storage rooms are. The, ah, the pharmacy is... er. Probably not reachable right now...."

[human_sponge]

While Peter also noticed the signs of fighting coming from the other side of the second floor hallway, his reaction to it was rather different from Hanatarou's. He couldn't help wondering about the people who might potentially be getting injured right at that moment. If the kid really thought they could start right away, then why couldn't they just run over there and offer their aid

[hasnomeaning]

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The stairs opened up into the hall that she had first traveled with Ikari. From there, stretched the walkway around the sun room; there, were the halls with rows of locked doors. Further in were the more questionable rooms. Fulls of needles and trays, white walls and shiny surfaces and silence. The girl stopped for a moment, looking to the left. "...That way leads to experimentation rooms. But it was dangerous moving there." In a way. That was a simple way to explain it. She turned to face straight and pointed. "And those doors seemed locked when we came through last." So it was the girl's choice of where to move.

Ayanami, however, was still caught on a simple wording Aigis had used. A phrase uncommon to most, and attention-getting to Rei. She debated letting it pass away into the night, then spoke instead. "...'This body'?"

[no_dont_go]

Three nights. And by the explanation she gave of their options, it seemed Rei had been more productive than she let on. Aigis felt her breath leave her slowly, and her shoulders heaved as though weighted down. No! She couldn't get herself down, not tonight! Like the problems with Ikutsuki and Ryoji, she could not change the past. But she could make up for it. She had to. Forward was the only course available.

"If it is dangerous, perhaps we should not move there tonight." Even if Rei had been in top shape, Aigis would have been reluctant knowingly traveling in perilous areas. But she would keep in mind the location of the experimentation rooms.

She had no use for locked doors. No doubt the locks would be much more complex than the ones on the doors back home in the dorms, which could easily be broken. She also lacked the proper tools.

"Let us take this hallway, then," Aigis suggested, moving them to the right, down the darkened corridor Rei had not mentioned. Perhaps something new awaited them there.

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