Night 73: Secret Stairs

[forsworn]

[from here]

The lights flickered on as Kratos entered; he quietly sheathed his sword and then walked onto the escalator after checking to make sure that Castiel and Lloyd had made it in after him.

"I realize our keys may not match," he said, mostly for Lloyd's benefit, as the escalator began its slow climb upward. "We have the radios, though, so if there are any issues, call." Both Castiel and Lloyd had easily remembered numbers; hopefully, they both recalled his.

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[thecamellia]

Tsubaki was ready for the bright lights in the room beyond, even if she felt no more comfortable in the spotlight than she had the second time. Everything looked exactly the same as it had before... which could be either a good thing or a bad thing, depending.

She took a cursory look around, just in case, but nothing jumped out at her besides the escalator. "But where could they possibly take us and how many are there?" she wondered as she stepped up behind Korra.

A whole new level of the Institute could mean anything.

[rebonding]

Korra shrugged, trying to hide her nervousness.

"Even if we get lost, they'll just take us back in the morning. There's gotta be at least one right way to go, or the rebels wouldn't have told us to come here," she said as she stepped off the stairs and onto the third floor...

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