Figures. She should have known the day couldn't have ended without something going wrong, not in this place. Leanne only had half a clue what had happened to the crashed bus, but thankfully, whatever it was hadn't seemed too serious. With nothing else to do, she'd settled back in her seat to wait, not at all sorry to find their return to the Institute delayed.

The more time passed however, the more everything just seemed... off, somehow. Shouldn't they... The monsters always came out at night, didn't they? Just what would happen if they were to be stuck outside when nightfall came? Surely, they wouldn't wait for the buses to reach the Institute again before coming out from wherever they usually were. Would they?

She didn't have to wait long to find out. The moment night fell, it felt almost as if the very world itself had changed, an ear-splitting scream filling the air, and the nurse. Worse still was her screaming, as she turned into something else entirely, something even worse than many of the monsters in Basel. Was this really what they had to go through every night, only to be completely ignorant of it the next morning?

For one long moment, Leanne felt as if she could scarcely breathe, could barely even move, her entire attention on the scene in front of her. It wasn't until she saw others moving around her, toward the back of the bus, that she could even make herself move.

Finally tearing her eyes away from the nurse, she followed the others to the exit.

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