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damned_institute2007-06-03 04:16 pm
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Nightshift 24: Hallway outside entry room
The giggling and the stinging scent of pepper faded as Gin and Jack changed their route to the second set of stairs near the doctors offices. It was Gin's first time leading, usually Jack took that job, letting him take up the reasonably safer rear guard. He kept his flashlight trained on the path ahead of them, his knife in the other hand. With any luck, they'd be able to move as quickly through the halls as they had their first night.
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Still, though--there was no reason to charge in blindly when they didn't have to. "Should we just try to distract the guy long enough to get everyone out?" The problem with that plan: the only real distraction she could think of was attacking him, and they'd tried that already. And though Hokuto was a good fighter, she had a feeling she wasn't quite fast enough to just run up and clunk him on the head with a flashlight.
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Nel looked hard at Hokuto, then threw open the door and pushed into the room without a second thought.
[to here (http://community.livejournal.com/damned/122217.html?thread=8545641#t8545641)]
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And Nel was more wildly successful with her mission than she could possibly have known.
The goddess was dragged by the arm right back out the door, softly whining as she realized that she had been taken away from her holy duty to dispel evil. Indeed, it would not have been difficult to imagine the drooping ears and limp tail that should have accompanied her doleful face.
...but she was alive, as was everyone else. Was that not the important thing?
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To the goddess, "Sorry, Amaterasu-sama--we got worried. Are you okay?" Despite the honorific she still used, she noted with some amusement that her speech style had gotten very casual very quickly...
She looked around the hallway again, wondering if there was a point in the night when they had to rush back to their rooms. She hoped not, since she didn't know where it was... well, this was a psychiatric hospital. She figured she could pretend to be a little out of it if she needed to!
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Although there was the danger of that man following them out of here, so she was a bit antsy to leave. "How are those boys? I didn't see them," she said hurriedly. "Tell me on the way - we should get out of here."
She wasn't sure herself where to go, but hopefully the goddess would pick a direction and stick with it.
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"I'm fine," the goddess confirmed with a weak smile, "and at least the boys got out alive. All of us did." And so far as Amaterasu was concerned, that was the important thing. If only she had more power! If only she was more god-like! Then that demon would not have been able to hurt so very many...
With a distinctly lupine droop to her features, Amaterasu started leading the way. While normally she was as radiant as the sun, her failure yet weighed heavily on her heart. How could she cleanse the Institute of evil when she couldn't even defeat one youkai? She didn't have enough praise to purify that one soul... she would have to try harder and ever harder to become as powerful as she would need to be.
"Let's go this way," she said, "I won't go without a weapon again, and maybe that will help the next time I fight a demon."
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