Night 57: Walk-in Refrigerator

[ninelivesonce]

[from here]

The cold storage was, as usual, cold. Taura stopped to make herself a second snack: several kinds of what looked like vat-meat from how even the loaves were, wrapped around some sliced cheese, like a sandwich with lighter meat substituting for the bread around the darker. She held it in her mouth as she grabbed a box of fudge ripple ice cream and waved it. Her voice was a little muffled, and she knew it looked ridiculous, but she only had so many hands, and one of them was covered in blades. "C'mon, Goku, there's good stuff in here, too. D'you like chocolate?"

That might be a dangerous proposition; he could be there all night, but she could always carry him -- and the ice cream -- along. What she'd heard hadn't said anything beyond three people being needed for the doors. They didn't have to be paying attention, just present.

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[gald_digger]

[from here]

The inside of the fridge was cold, but compared to the weather outside, it was perfectly bearable. In there, Anise was able to see more traces left by people who had gone ahead of them: food out of place, packaging left on shelves, the tile in the corner had already been moved... While she couldn't guess at who had come in before them, it was clear where they had gone.

"Looks like we're almost there," she told the others with a small smile, but she couldn't help but worry about whoever had gone ahead of them. She probably needed to worry about herself and her friends a little, too... There was no telling what was in store for them.

[full-score.livejournal.com]

It was a little unsettling to see clear signs that other people had passed through here before them. That meant there were people down there, maybe even in the coliseum. For a moment, Claude felt regretful that he'd been unable to properly warn anyone, but he'd done his best to dissuade those who showed interest in exploring the basement. Unfortunately, Landel had done something to prevent him for telling the whole truth of what happened down there.

Well, there wasn't much use in beating himself up over it, he thought with an inward sigh. They just had to hope that they'd find something down there that wouldn't make Dias and Guy's sacrifices in vain.

"Let's see," Claude said as he made his way toward the passageway's entrance. "It looks like someone else has opened everything up for us, so I guess it's a straight shot from here." He glanced over to Guy. "If you wanna go first, I'll make sure Anise gets down safely." It would also put a buffer between the two of them in case something happened, and they lost their grip while climbing down.

[nobleman]

It was obvious that they weren't the first ones to make it here, which was not surprising when considering the fact that they'd had to reroute to such an extent. Guy still thought they'd been moving pretty fast, though, and now they were so close he could almost taste it.

Not that he really knew what they were about to face would taste like. Chances were it wouldn't be anything good.

Guy actually took some pleasure in the coldness of the room, mainly because he knew they were only going to be in here for a short while. He nodded in response to Claude's suggestion and moved ahead of him and Anise to head down the revealed staircase.

[To here.]