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damned_institute2012-03-20 08:56 pm
ninelivesonce) wrote in damned_institute2012-03-20 08:56 pm
Nightshift 62: Main Hallway, 1-West
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Taura took up station midway between the two halls leading back into the dormitories. Alone with her thoughts; the hall was quiet. Too quiet. Dead quiet, a little voice hissed in the back of her mind.
This was no time to be getting superstitious. It was unavoidable, really, in a profession with so much risk involved in daily operations, that those who survived found things to credit. Beyond their own skill, because they'd all seen better men/women/herms when their luck ran out, and skill only improved your odds.
Her luck was holding, tonight. Was Rita and Goku's?
[Rita and Goku]
Taura took up station midway between the two halls leading back into the dormitories. Alone with her thoughts; the hall was quiet. Too quiet. Dead quiet, a little voice hissed in the back of her mind.
This was no time to be getting superstitious. It was unavoidable, really, in a profession with so much risk involved in daily operations, that those who survived found things to credit. Beyond their own skill, because they'd all seen better men/women/herms when their luck ran out, and skill only improved your odds.
Her luck was holding, tonight. Was Rita and Goku's?
[Rita and Goku]
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She'd tried tuning it out while she'd gotten changed, but the words lingered in her ears, and left a heavy coldness in her heart. Losing volition and conscious thought... masticating your beloved friends ... homegrown monsters...
The girl slipped through the small clusters of other patients, her eyes turned away from them. Her flashlight carved her path in darkness, and even a long hallway was short for the worry beginning to simmer in the back of her mind.
Somehow, it was the laughter that stuck with her, rattling around inside her like so much metal and so many bones; helmets and teeth.
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