Night 51: Entry Room

[buryyourdemons]

[from here]And another room opened up, smaller, with five doors to add to the one he came through. Two seemed to lead to other rooms inside this one. One, would open into the hallway he was in previously. The one across would continue unknown, and on his right there was one. Further from the sun room, as he sought

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[human_sponge]

[Back from here.]

It was completely still in the entry room, and while Peter could never quite feel at ease, he was at least glad to see that there wasn't some huge mutant cat ready to bat them around like balls of yarn. He couldn't easily forget the time one of those had come after him and Nathan.

Glancing back at Claire, he nodded to the door that would take them back into the main hallway. "So we're just backtracking to the stairs now," he explained. "Once we get up them it's not too much further to where the experiments happen." If they made it through without anything getting in their way, at least. Last time they had been fine, but he got the feeling it wouldn't always be that simple.

[autophoenix]

Empty was nice. Empty was reassuring, because if it was empty, it meant there were no monsters, and it also meant it was just Peter who'd get to see her as she struggled to compose herself again. She was pleased that he'd let it go, it meant he either hadn't noticed or he was smart enough to accept that sometimes things got a little too overwhelming for her to handle. Him thanking her made her feel better, at least. Marginally. She knew it was excessive and not necessarily wholly genuine -- he never would have felt the need to go to the file room in the first place if she hadn't wanted to, he obviously wasn't that invested in it -- but she felt just a little bit less helpless for it, and it helped her gather up the motivation to follow him out of the room