[From here.It took a moment for Dairine to take in the hallway in its entirety. The basement seemed to be a completely different animal from the rest of the Institute. The style down here reminded her of pictures she'd seen of Versailles, as opposed to the clinical conditions upstairs. The rift in interior design was strange, but she'd seen weirder ( Read more... )

(From hereCitan led the way down the stairs, all senses on alert. He was tense and his muscles were tightened as he made his way down. He didn't know what was waiting for them, but he knew that whatever was down here was important ( Read more... )

[from here]Running his hands through his hair, Mason desperately looked around, trying to find something that could help out against a two-headed fire-breathing knife-having monster thing ( Read more... )

"Hit a nerve, did I, Alec ( Read more... )

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Mason stepped into the kitchen, hoping to find a convenient stack of waffles lying around. Or at least a better weapon than his empty whiskey bottle. But nothing really leapt out at him.

... Hopefully nothing was going to literally leap out at him. Mason gulped. He really didn't want to run into any monster-type things ( Read more... )

[[From hereSubZero cautiously stepped inside the sun room, "Do you see anything?" SubZero was trained to operate in darkness, but even with the light coming in over head HK still had an advantage over him when it came to detecting things ( Read more... )