Day 32: Sun Room (2nd shift)

[heraldric.livejournal.com]

After the couple glasses of water Leon managed to gulp down during breakfast, the mage felt immensely better. He was still a bit tired, but that was nothing a little lounging on one of the sofas wouldn't cure. Stretching his arms above his head, he couldn't help but wish he'd had the chance to grab one of his new doctor's coats before leaving his room that morning. Maybe they would have let him get away with wearing it. Maybe.

He grabbed an empty sofa, pulling out the journal he tried to keep on him at all times. It was nearly complete now. Just a couple more pages to go. It might not improve his spellcasting that much, but any improvement was better than none. It was getting to where it might be too dangerous for him to use spells at all, if it left him so worn out without even finishing a monster off.

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[lost-turkey.livejournal.com]

"A few weeks? I hope I'm not here that long," John frowned. The thought of being stuck here was not a pleasant one.

"This is a lot to take in. Was it easy for you to hear this?"

[shyboyblue.livejournal.com]

Tyler snorted and shook his head. "When I arrived? It was night shift. I was lucky to run into someone who knew what was going on, else I might have gotten killed or eaten in my first few minutes here. We ran into a villain from a video game. I thought we were in some sort of weird freaky haunted house with people in very realistic costumes. Boy was I ever wrong."

[lost-turkey.livejournal.com]

"Is it really that bad at night?" John asked, shifting closer to Tyler. "What sort of monsters do they have here? Are they all from movies and video games like... like we are?"

The thought of having to out run a Terminator when there wasn't anywhere to escape to wasn't something John was looking forward to.

[shyboyblue.livejournal.com]

"Some of them are," Tyler answered. "The bulletin board over there is probably the best place to ask. So far I've seen Tyrant from Resident Evil and Pyramid Head from Silent Hill. But this place also has its own monsters that seem to be from here. Things mutate after dark, just like the institute itself. There are cats and dogs and rats and insects and such that mutate into vicious monsters. They get bigger and nastier and way more deadly. And I think there's ghosts that also haunt the halls, my friend Reid and I ran into something the other night that we couldn't see, but we could hear it, and it made the air very hard to breathe."

[lost-turkey.livejournal.com]

"As if I didn't have enough things to worry about," John sighed, running his fingers through his hair in frustration. "At least this isn't any different from my normal say life. Running has become sort of an artform."

[shyboyblue.livejournal.com]

"Well, this is completely backwards for me," Tyler admitted, leaning back in his chair in a comfortable slouch. "Where I come from, we haver to be careful. There's a lot of secrets in my family. It's still a bit weird being around so many people who probably have bigger ones than we do."

[lost-turkey.livejournal.com]

"I think it all depends on how you look at it," John shrugged. "Every family has secrets and skeletons in the closet but I doubt you can compare secrets that I have to, say, Clark Kent's. Entirely different can of worms. So, whatever your secrets are I'm sure they're just as important as my own."