The next hallway. Again there was door a nearby, and Gabriel saw it almost instantly when he cast the beam of his torch around. He paused for a moment, mapping the area in his head. That had been one good thing about Rachel--she hadn't wanted him to loiter, but she had been willing to talk, to help the 'poor dear' acclimatise. He needed this door.
This hallway was different to the last, though. Those had been smaller, dimensions definable even without proper sight. This one was big enough that Gabriel couldn't quite sense where the edges were, and turning his back on the yawning expanse behind him made his throat tighten. The silence in the corridor, except for the quick steps of patients moving through them, made it worse.
Enough, he told himself sternly. Be less anxious. And move fast.
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The next hallway. Again there was door a nearby, and Gabriel saw it almost instantly when he cast the beam of his torch around. He paused for a moment, mapping the area in his head. That had been one good thing about Rachel--she hadn't wanted him to loiter, but she had been willing to talk, to help the 'poor dear' acclimatise. He needed this door.
This hallway was different to the last, though. Those had been smaller, dimensions definable even without proper sight. This one was big enough that Gabriel couldn't quite sense where the edges were, and turning his back on the yawning expanse behind him made his throat tighten. The silence in the corridor, except for the quick steps of patients moving through them, made it worse.
Enough, he told himself sternly. Be less anxious. And move fast.
He slid through the door.
[to here.]