Night 67: Main Hallway, 1-West

[ofthemotions]

[from here --and waiting for Ryusei!]

There still wasn't a lot of people in the halls, and it was starting to make him nervous. Maybe he should try to find someone to hang out with tonight. Snow and Celty had insisted on how Mikado shouldn't be alone at night--it wouldn't hurt to take their advice. But it would be strange to just go up to someone and ask to walk around with them.

...Wouldn't it?

He made a face, and paused in the hall, looking around. He was more aware of the bandages covering his eye in the dim, and even wearing his own clothes didn't negate that uncomfortability. He was suddenly starting to think he should have just stayed inside.

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[oyaji]

[From here]

The hallway was much quieter than it usually was. He wondered if many had stayed in for the day or they had just been slow to start wandering. Either way, none of the patients looked anxious or spooked like they had just seen a bloody deranged monster come scrambling down the hallway. Well, he supposed that was for the best even if it meant there were no leads on where the bastard could be.

Still, it wouldn't hurt to check rooms as they went. Barnaby couldn't get mad at him if they were heading in the direction of the greenhouse and just popping a head in a few rooms on the way, right? Right!

[baniichan]

Even as they continued further down the hall, the lack of evidence pointing toward a culprit remained all the more apparent. If it were a mindless creature, Barnaby doubted that the surrounding areas would have stayed so clean, and that the patients would remain so collected in the wake of a beast's rampage. They couldn't rule out the possibility that the murder had been carried out deliberately and carefully in some way.

But poking at a cold corpse wasn't going to get them very far, either. Quite frankly, Barnaby was all the more determined to get to the greenhouse, particularly if these gruesome deaths became a trend, and they needed to be at their best in order to get to the bottom of it. Yet Kotetsu was determined to check every nook and cranny along the way, and Barnaby supposed he couldn't blame him.

That was why he didn't try to stop his partner as he moved toward the lobby. Instead, he followed and did his best to remain vigilant.

[To here.]