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damned_institute2007-06-02 02:04 pm
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Nightshift 24: F21-F30 Hallway
Usagi peeked her head out into the hallway, her body completely tensed up. It was dark and creepy but there was no sign of monsters yet. Body plastered to the edge of the doorway she cautiously stepped out of the room. Where was she supposed to meet Naruto and Rock Lee... M2? She looked at the doors of her hallway, trying to get her bearings. There was definitely something different about the place during the night... The girl shivered and her legs became stiff as she thought about what might be lurking around.
Calm down, Usagi told herself, letting out a deep breath. She had to help her new friends and somehow get back to her world. With her goal in mind she raced down the hallway.
Calm down, Usagi told herself, letting out a deep breath. She had to help her new friends and somehow get back to her world. With her goal in mind she raced down the hallway.
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Hokuto reached under her shirt, feeling for a scar. Nothing--not a bandage or a puckering of the skin to be felt. Her chest was as smooth as if nothing had happened. Feeling her outfit revealed only that it involved a long-sleeved shirt and pants of the same material, with a circle-shaped design on the front of the shirt. She got out of bed slowly, uncertainly. Why couldn't she see? A punishment of some kind?
"Hello?" she asked cautiously. No reply. Hokuto stood very still for a few moments, waiting, before she tried simply walking forward. Two steps later she hit something hard, square, and--wooden? Feeling it, she realized it was a dresser. "Ummm... okaaaaaaay..." she said, a little dryly. "Is this my room now?" She even opened a drawer to check out the clothing inside, but as far as she could tell (she wasn't used to being blind!) it was all the same as what she was wearing.
Rather than wait to see if someone came to get her, Hokuto tried to find a door out; it helped that the room seemed fairly small. The first door she found was into a closet; she nearly hit her head on the bar intended for hangers before she realized what it was. Laughing a little at herself, she backed out, closed the door, and tried again. The next door she found opened up into... well, she didn't know what. Another room? A hallway?
She was well aware that she was unarmed, and lack of anything to draw with meant she couldn't cast anything that required arrays. She'd read more than a few stories about the afterlife not being as safe and calm as one would hope in some areas, and for all she knew this was one of them. "I'll survive," she whispered, then chuckled helplessly. "Okay... I'll manage." She had no cause to worry, no matter what happened--the worst had already happened, after all.
She had no hope of not getting lost, but did it really matter if she couldn't find her way back to where she'd been? Hokuto looked into the darkness ahead of her, squared her shoulders, and started walking.
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And Sheska had held her breath. And waited.
Nothing happened. This place was way too spooky for her liking. But she couldn't stay here, right? Right? Damn, she was alone. She was going to have to encourage herself. She pulled herself up straight and held her head high. She could do this.
Grabbing the torch she'd found and a pillow, she walked to the door and tested it. It opened. Good. Maybe. No, it was good. It had to be.
She looked at the bed. Maybe if she went back to sleep she'd wake up at home.
No. No. She wouldn't do that. She was going to be strong and brave like Mr Hughes and the Elrics. And Winry. And everyone around her, really. Whatever was going on...she could work it all out.
Besides, it was probably some silly mistake. Kidnapped by accident. It had to happen, right? She'd just been unlucky, that was all.
Sheska peered down the dark hallways and stepped out.
"Hello...?" she whispered, cuddling the pillow with one arm and flashing the torch up the hall.
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F23
She already knew what that meant, and it was all the signal she needed to open the door and leave her pink-haired roommate behind. She wasn't foolish enough to not have allies, but Signum apparently had her own plans.
And she wasn't one to drag someone into hers, not without reason.
She moved into the hallway, falling into a low crouch against the walls.
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Being killed again by stupidity simply wasn't part of the plan.
Luckily, neither time nor death had made her rusty, just weaker, and she sidled along the walls of the F20 hallway at a decent pace. As she reached the end, she estimated there were about ten rooms, perhaps fifteen, in each hallway, so the vague door to the left probably led to the rest of the building. Clearly, she needed to go right.
She moved past the entrances to each hallway at a fast but vaguely slowed pace (as she was without her equipment, she should have been able to run circles through these hallways by now). Finally, she reached the last, hopefully correct hallway and turned down it.
F10, F9, F8. There.
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It was an image that lied twice. Here she was less confident than she had been in a long time; only experience allowed her to act calmly. An aura of invincibility and actual invincibility are two entirely different things, and she was aware that with Laevateinn gone, a poor choice of weapons, and weak magic she might find herself challenged by opponents that once would have been incapable of harming her. But neither was she a fool. A creature of considerable pride but even greater battle experience, she would walk openly where she sensed no danger... but that didn't mean she wouldn't hide or back down from an enemy she did not think herself capable of defeating.
She had a Knight's soul, always, but with blade and master absent she was willing to accept the new limits that came with change, just as she had ten years ago in joining the Administration Bureau.
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