Night 66: Main Hallway, 1-West

[dualistic]

[From here.]

That hadn't taken long. So much so that it looked like he was the first person to make it this far. Harvey took a moment to scan the hall with his flashlight, including near the stairs, but he didn't see (or hear) much of anything. It was the sort of thing that set him on edge.

Since he couldn't do much else, he leaned himself against the wall by the stairs and then grabbed for his gun, holding it near his side as he waited. Normally he didn't take the weapon out unless he planned to shoot it, but when there was a possibility that some transformed patient might come barreling down the halls in the next few seconds, he wanted to take precaution.

Hopefully Scott and Sangamon would haul ass over here before all hell started to break loose. If things got too hairy, Harvey was ready to make a run for it on his own. That was the logical thing to do.

[Waiting for S.T.]

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[survives]

"Straight through," she agreed, her voice little more than a whisper, her entire body rigid. They hadn't exactly had a lot of luck the last time she'd run into one of these, unarmed as they'd been, but now didn't exactly seem like a good time to try tangling with one either. At least Tsubaki shared her opinion on getting away from it, something Leanne was immensely grateful for at the moment.

"It doesn't even look like it's doing anything here..." she breathed as she took careful, measured steps further down the hallway, never straying far from Tsubaki. It wasn't that big of a hallway, right? They just had to make it. "I haven't seen a lot of monsters act like this before."

[thecamellia]

Tsubaki didn't take her eyes off of the strange figure, keeping her body oriented toward it so that if anything happened she would be able to get ahead of Leanne and intercept. Even as she watched, she wasn't quite sure what the thing was herself. Leanne was right--the Institute's normal monsters didn't tend to linger on their own. Any time Tsubaki had seen a monster, it was usually because it was attacking someone...

But then, it kind of looked like someone had already tried to incapacitate it to some degree...

"It looks... like someone might have fought against it," she murmured. She didn't have to turn around to be able to count Leanne's steps; she followed them intuitively. "It could be disoriented." There was something lodged in its head, after all. If it'd been put there by force, that would throw off just about anything, wouldn't it?

[survives]

"It could probably already be hurt, too," she whispered, on the heels of Tsubaki's observation. "That's good for us, right?" The tightness in her chest loosened just a little at the thought, though she still didn't dare to move more than was absolutely necessary. Whatever had been done to it, it could very help them make their escape. But it wouldn't do to get too confident either, not after what had happened the night before.

"If... If we're careful, I think we can get past it now. It might not even be able to follow us for long if it sees us." They were getting closer and closer to the creature by then, closer to where they could finally move past it. "We can do this..."

[thecamellia]

"Yeah." Nightshift was a time to slip into an assassin mode, and that meant treating others' injuries as potential advantages. If the figure was dangerous and was slowly recovering from someone else's assault, that worked in their favor.

She turned and nodded, encouraging the other girl along. With luck, they wouldn't have to find out just how far an Institute monster could follow someone.

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