Nightshift 32: F-A block hallway

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Shion continued to move down the hall, her eyes peering around at every corner she could see. Sadly, she was yet to see these so called “monsters”, but she knew that could always happen later, too.

Hm, first things first. She had to at least get out of the female block. Then she’d be able to figure out exactly where she was planning on going.

And so, Shion continued down the hallway, humming a song as she went.

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Renamon did not realize how dark the halls were. She assumed some light would be left on, security lights, or something of that design. She was glad that she decided to bring the flashlight, even though she only turned it on in quick bursts. She slid along the wall, senses alert. She didn't know what to expect in this place. Hopefully, she would remedy that.

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She must have slept through the entire rush because there were usually people lingering about well into the night. She held her flashlight with both hands, moving the beam back and forth in front of her regularly. This was one of the safer hallways but it felt a lot safer when things weren't so quiet and empty and dark.

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It was dark here, just like the other hall, but Esmeralda kept her head up. So far there was nothing. She quietly tip-toed down the hallway as quickly as she could (which, for a gypsy who was on the run all the time and regularly used stealth and wits to get away, was pretty fast), watching out for any signs of trouble.

The only way out was up ahead, from what she could see in the shadows...

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Lia managed not to stumble over her own feet as the wall she'd been following ended abruptly. She picked her way across the hallway, turning towards the door she knew was not far ahead. Despite her efforts to stay calm, she could feel her pulse racing. When the Blood said they revered the darkness, this was not what they meant.

She paused in her travels long enough to take several deep breaths. They did little enough to calm her nerves, but she forced herself to pretend otherwise. Tomorrow, she assured herself, she would ask someone about portable light sources, as there seemed to be no stationary ones still functional. Once certain she was unlikely to hyperventilate, she continued onward.

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Still not as many people here as Alkaid was expecting, considering that there had to be hundreds of patients in this place. Well, maybe they were just slow or something. Or it could be that there just weren't that many other girls in here. Not like The World, where there were a ton of guys who played girls. She wondered if any of the guys here were actually played by girls?

That'd be kind of funny, actually.

"All right, where to next?" She was speaking to herself. Somehow, making a little bit of sound made it a little better. She'd reached the end of a hallway. Shining her flashlight left, then slowly right, she bit her lower lip. "Huhhh.."

She finally chose right. Not like she knew where she was going, anyway. Damn mazes.

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Yuuhi hurried down the main hallways and back into the room block one. He hadn't done any running around in the female hallways, but it was laid out much the same as the others, so it wasn't too difficult to navigate. Sakura's room wasn't far from here, he was sure of it. Now all he had to do was reach her before Kurogane did.

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Claire made her way back the way the nurse had led her a short time before, retracing her steps. Her journal was with her and she paused to make a brief sketch of the areas she passed. It would keep her from getting lost on her way back. If she even needed to come back this way. She hoped not, but everyone else made her think that getting away wouldn't be so easy.

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It was very, very dark. Melissa was relying more on the thoughts she picked up involuntarily around her to not hit anything than actually trying to see where she was going, but the sporadic flashlight beams did manage to light up some of the path.

Flashlights. She was going to have to find out where to get one of those.

On the subject of things she needed that the nurses stole, Melissa also needed a watch. One of those cheap quartz things would do, she just wanted to be able to tell the time. Melissa really didn't like the midnight hour creeping up on her with no warning, but it looked like she was going to have to deal with that for now.

She hoped midnight came soon. The extra thoughts and emotions beating her skull in were really starting to get on her nerves.

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'Horror' might have been a strong word for the hallway, with a handful of other women and girls rushing past, back and forth, but it was still unnatural. Compared to the daytime, she could see why someone would almost expect monsters to appear out of nowhere in this place. Seiya couldn't say for sure whether it was her instincts telling her this place was dangerous, or a combination of the dark atmosphere and the stories she'd already been told. The man she was going to meet had shown a fairly convincing piece of evidence about the dangers here. If 'upstairs' was, in fact, where the more interesting things were kept (she could hope for her change star, although she wouldn't count on it) monsters ought to be more likely there too.

The announcement of the intercoms had gone in one ear and out the other, aside from the open acknowledgment of the dark side of this place, and a reference to a location she didn't even know. She could worry about it after she had something more substantial than a heavy-duty flashlight in her hands.

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Max slipped out into the larger corridor, eyes scanning the darkness intently for anything that would pose a threat. Seeing nothing, she hesitated in this hall, shifting restlessly from foot to foot.

This was where she'd met Thursday and Renji the night before, but there was no sight of them yet. Settling back against a wall to wait, she kept her eyes on the doorways, watching for her companions or anything else that might happen along.

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Thursday kept her torch trained on the ground as she stepped around the corner, smiling as she spotted Max just down the hall.

"Evening," she called as she neared. "Dayshift go all right for you?"

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Shana slipped out into the adjoining corridor, pausing for only the faintest of moments to get her bearings before continuing onwards, her expression determined and her stride purposeful.

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But now that she thought about it, where was Zelgadis? She didn't know his room number, and they hadn't agreed on a meeting place... Well, they hadn't actually agreed to meet at all, but it was natural for Allies of Justice to stick together!

...And hopefully he wasn't mad at her about what happened in the Sun Room.

Amelia was far too psyched over the thought of finally getting to fight evil tonight to even consider staying put and waiting to see if he would come to her. Yes, now was a time for action! She was sure to find him if she just wandered around the patient blocks a little.

Onward she went, through the door at the end of the hall.

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Usagi's heart raced as she turned the corner, a large smile creeping across her face. Ami was only a few feet away!

The familiar hallway was darker than usual, there was nobody else in it. Usagi looked to her left, then her right, but still saw no one, and heard no greeting.

Maybe she's just late... Ami had been late another time they were supposed to meet, time moved so strangely in Landel's that it was easy to take a nap and miss a day. Usagi leaned against a wall, ready to wait as long as she had to, but she couldn't get the fear out of her mind that Ami might not show up at all... because something might have happened to her.

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Falis lead Namine over to where Usagi was standing, obviously waiting for Ami. The bounty hunter was curious where Ami had been as well, especially since the blue-haired girl had become her stand-in for Dominikov being all smart like she was. She also wanted to know if Ami had found one of the mikrobscobes so she could look at the blood and see if the cell thingies were arming themselves. One could never be too cautious when it came to possible coups.

"Oi! Usagi!" Falis jerked a thumb at Namine. "This is Namine. We're heading to the basement to go find some vampires. Wanna come along? I've got stakes!"

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Hmm. Dark, concrete. Boring. Okay, so not much different from the Facility.

Elle swept her flashlight around a few times, but didn't see anything other than some patients. Really shoddy, letting them wander around at night. It was so much more entertaining when they couldn't move and you knew right where to find them.

There was only one door in this hallway, so Elle made her way towards it.

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More people here, and still all going in the same direction. She sort of wanted to stop and ask what was going on, but the tiny pull was getting stronger in this direction, and it really hadn't ever led her wrong before, so she followed it. Maybe she'd find out something when she got... wherever she was going.

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Now free of both pants and underwear, Diva had come to make a final decision. She didn't have a clear idea in mind when she single-mindedly swept through the cell block, only to approach the exit and make a left, just that she knew it led outside.

That night, she wasn't going to back through the halls to the waiting room, but out to the field where she'd once seen that blood red moon.

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It was going to have to be in here, Aidou thought. They (or he) didn't have time to search out the perfect opportunity much farther from the cell blocks, even if the chances of finding a good meal ticket were higher. He needed to find someone for himself too, and Aidou was going to make sure he made his own attack somewhere away from Kyon's. With that in mind, the options for locale were scarce when it came to find the ex-human an easy source of blood.

There were only three people around--two women, one girl--and neither choice was safe, being so in the open.

Having stepped inside the open door and followed the wall, allowing Kyon through and keeping them to the corner where they were unlikely to be spotted, Aidou finally spoke up again. "I'll be picking someone for you again, so you'll have to make do with what's available."

Meaning whichever girl looked the easiest to surprise and attack. Human females were typically easier to overpower then males, so it was better to do this in the F block.

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Kyon was perfectly content to stay in step with Aidou as he ran about the cell-blocks. He'd ask where he was going in a bit, but otherwise stayed quiet. If Aidou had food in mind, then he wasn't going to argue. Borrowing from Sasuke had worked out fine, so there was no reason to object.

He'd worry about the guilt later.

When Aidou addressed him finally, he paused and glanced to the girls. Wait, did Aidou imply that there was nothing scheduled?

"They don't know we're coming, do they? You're just going to grab one of them!?" Kyon spoke quiet enough to not be heard by anyone but Aidou, but the startlment was still there. Did the other vampire strictly forbid actually attacking a human? What was he trying top ull?

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From one dark hallway, right into another.

The constant darkness was more than a little irritating but on the plus side, it seemed there were at least a couple others here; it was still too difficult to see anything, but Fleur could at least hear voices. That would've typically been cause for a little relief, but she wasn't going to be swayed so easily. While it let her know that she wasn't the only person roaming around, it also served to remind her that she knew nothing about this place or its occupants. And without a means to properly defend herself, she wasn't going to take any unnecessary chances.

Moving as quietly as she could, Fleur turned into another hall.

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"Auauauu." Sliding to a halt, Hanyuu moved her flashlight from one end of the hall to the other. There were others here, but none of them were Rika. Hopefully that meant her friend hadn't yet made it out of her room.

The spirit tried to be happy at that thought, but the despair was already beginning to creep in. Hanyuu often did or said things that Rika didn't approve of, but the other girl had never flat out ignored her because of it. And Hanyuu was sure that she hadn't done anything here that would've made Rika mad... Adding on the fact that her friend hadn't eaten anything all day, it was near impossible to not assume things...

Shaking her head, Hanyuu turned off the flashlight. Rika would be okay; she just had to be! She had probably just slept all day; Hanyuu had done that before herself. She'd just wait a little while, then Rika would come out and everything would be fine.

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As darkness fell around the girl, silence rested heavily on the air for a moment before a quiet scuttling sound could be heard. The tap of several spindly legs skittering across the tile towards her as the cockroach edged out of the shadows. Lured by the scent of food, the fall of familiar darkness urged the creature from its hiding place as the insect closed in.

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Alita probably meant this hall, seeing as how this was how they met. Naminé remembered, but she hoped that Alita hadn't already gone ahead. It was probably just her being too worrisome, but Naminé's paranoia wasn't helped considering what happened to her during the day before dinner.

She shifted the stake to her elbow, her thumb already getting tired from trying to grasp the wood weapon against her palm. Perhaps she should not exert her hand or else her joints won't heal properly...

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Falis came strutting down the hallway just as before, little showing in her stride of her sore ribs. She easily spotted Namine and Usagi, but decided to go to Namine first since Ami wasn't with Usagi yet. The princess stopped dead center in front of Namine and looked her up and down. Something was off... Ah.

"Oi! Namine, what'd you do to your hand? That's not going to help you when it comes to staking a vamp." Despite her words, there was an element of concern in the princess' crimson gaze as she watched Namine.

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Sighing hard, he pressed into the hallway. Just the same as the others in looks which also meant the same number of hallways and the same number of rooms. That was at least forty rooms, he wagered. Just going at random wouldn't do, and there had been too many to pass through the hallway for him to sense the girl, so he determined he'd better start with the lowest number and see where that led him. There were not that many women here, after all, so it stood that the lower rooms would be filled up first. Or that was his logic in it.

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Misa excited her room, looking about suspiciously and flashing light down the hall. She moved quickly and quietly, even to the point of creeping around on tip-toe as if it would really help her avoid running into any monsters.

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After rounding the corner, Rhode tapped along towards the next door with one thought on her mind: right or left? She'd never been to any of the other patient blocks before (unless unconscious), though she knew they existed, and had no idea which of the three might be holding Tyki. The closest one would be to the left, but for him to be there on the first try there would have to be some luck.

You couldn't cheat here like he did at cards either.

Going left was closest and she knew how to get there though. Left it was.

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Momo paused at the end of the hall to make sure the other girls had followed along. "Archer-san should be just through that door," she said with an indication to the door leading out to the hallway. At this point, her expression was rather pensive and withdrawn; the shinigami was starting to run several scenarios through her mind of what may occur when she found Signum.

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Hokuto nodded, keeping quiet; she had only the vaguest idea of what Momo was going to do, and while she knew it was imperative that she obey orders... facing down Signum was going to be very, very nerve-wracking. If the knight didn't know anyone but Momo was there, that was more than likely only going to make Hokuto feel even worse.