Nightshift 62: Main Hallway, 1-West

[ninelivesonce]

[from here]

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]

Comments

[lighthearted]

It didn't look like this was something that the two girls were going to let go so easily, which Sora realized he could understand. He could only imagine how he would have reacted if a friend had told him they weren't feeling well under these circumstances, when the Head Doctor had already been hinting at things.

It occurred to him that if something bad really did happen, he might be putting Rapunzel and Tsubaki in danger by going along with them. But he really didn't feel that bad -- he'd gotten colds as a kid that were a whole lot worse than what he was feeling now -- so he wasn't going to hang back just because of that.

If he really started feeling strange, he could always move away from them, right?

"That fountain? I don't know how safe it is to use, though..." Sora hadn't ever tried it himself, but what he'd picked up about it was that while it worked, there was a catch to it. It didn't sound like the kind of risk that he would want to take.

Still, if it was on the way to wherever they were going, maybe they could at least give it a look. "Well, I guess it's worth checking out, anyway." He didn't have to agree to using the fountain if he didn't want to, and then they could move on to whatever the girls had originally planned. Nodding to himself, he turned toward the stairs and started up them.

[To here.]