Nightshift 29: Basement, East Hall

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It took a moment for Dairine to take in the hallway in its entirety. The basement seemed to be a completely different animal from the rest of the Institute. The style down here reminded her of pictures she'd seen of Versailles, as opposed to the clinical conditions upstairs. The rift in interior design was strange, but she'd seen weirder things, and this would no doubt be topped by something even stranger by the end of the night.

The tapestries on the walls caught her eye, and she moved closer to one, waiting for her companions to follow her through. She looked, but didn't touch; she knew enough to at least take proper precautions before dealing with something that was potentially deadly.

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River followed Renji. As she followed, pacing down the long hallway through the dim lights, she watched. Not in the same way that Ren watched, but she saw. A hand glanced over one of the detailed tapestries, over the painted blood and gore. Pictures were more real than reality sometimes.

"Picture's got a meaning, but it isn't saying out loud," she answered Renji, somewhat troubled as she looked back at it. "It's talking in all kinds of ways, but you can't hear. Can guess, though. Hypothesize. Or you can just walk and listen on the way. If you don't get robbed by the bandits. Ren!" The little sister turned to her brother, the brother with the golden eye. "You're late."

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Renji spared a glance at Ren, but kept going. Unless he heard the guy yelling, he wasn't going to worry about it too much. Other than the thing with the triangle on its head, he'd yet to come across much of anything here that he and River couldn't beat together.

"I'll walk and listen, I guess," Renji said. "I don't think I'm smart enough to hypotho-thingy." He shot a grin over his shoulder at her.

There was a door, on the left side of the hall. Cautiously, he opened it and stepped through.

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