"Why yes, my joints are so sore that I feel like I’m going to collapse any second." And yet Jade walked about as fluidly as ever, giving a good amount of space between himself and Guy as they meandered back out into the hallway. The heaviness was just as strong as ever, but the Colonel was more prepared and thus more adapted than earlier that night.

"It would be best that we take a closer look at every area we wind up in, starting with this one." The traffic was close to none by the time they made it back out, so this gave him plenty of space to hug the walls for anything peculiar.