There was an aroma in the air that grew more pungent and foul the closer to the main corridor they got; he couldn't pinpoint it, which made him wrinkle his noses as much as the smell did.
"Something was here," he commented to Sasuke on their way through. The boy was no amateur at moving quickly in the dark, and as a consequence Aidou doubted anything short of a very determined opponent would impede the progress of a ninja and a vampire, but it didn't hurt to make the observation. "Something dead and desiccated, from the smell. And freshly spilled blood underneath that. There must have been a confrontation or something."
They both knew the Institute's beasts could come in all shapes and sizes, so the vampire didn't think there was anything particularly surprising in the idea that something less than human had been creeping around.
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There was an aroma in the air that grew more pungent and foul the closer to the main corridor they got; he couldn't pinpoint it, which made him wrinkle his noses as much as the smell did.
"Something was here," he commented to Sasuke on their way through. The boy was no amateur at moving quickly in the dark, and as a consequence Aidou doubted anything short of a very determined opponent would impede the progress of a ninja and a vampire, but it didn't hurt to make the observation. "Something dead and desiccated, from the smell. And freshly spilled blood underneath that. There must have been a confrontation or something."
They both knew the Institute's beasts could come in all shapes and sizes, so the vampire didn't think there was anything particularly surprising in the idea that something less than human had been creeping around.
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