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Nightshift 33: F21-30 Hallway

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The intercom startled Falis when it went off and thankfully, she'd set the newly crafted spear down or she might have jabbed a splinter into her palm. As it was, she was stading over her bed looking at all her weapons laid out upon it. One sharp spear, still stained with Eve's blood, one fresh spear, and a stake. Maybe she needed another stake. Nah... Namine should remember hers; Namine didn't forget things. This was why Falis liked the girl so much.

Her eyes moved to look at the intercom as the announcement continued, nodding as it pretty much conformed the whole ancient technology thing she'd been pretty certain of in teh first place. And since it seemed like it was on the fritz, whatever it did, that maybe the princess wasn't going to have to use her super-secret sealing Forland blood anytime soon. Maybe there was another princess around with special blood doing it for them.

What was her name? Jill? Jane? Whatever.

Now, if the people that were supposed to be showing up showed up soon. Bounty hunters had to be patient, but that didn't mean they liked waiting.

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The princess dropped her arm and lowered the light a bit. Hmmm... She knew Kagura was a bit off-kilter because of the rapid questions, but thaty was the point; she'd get more truthful answers this way.

"Describe the blood in last night's fight with the spider. Did you see it's color - yours and the spider's. What did it smell like? How did you feel?"

"I-i-its blood?" Kagura said with a shocked expression. Her face grew a little paler.

"I don't know, it was... it was gross! I don't even want to think about that! I don't know what color it was, I was too busy trying not to get eaten by it!" Really! Of all the absurd questions to ask, this was too much! What good would asking that kind of question be?

That reaction answered all Falis' questions. She put a hand on Kagura's shoulder to try and calm her down.

"Kagura," she said with a bit of force to get her to pay attention. "You're not going to turn into a vampire."

Kagura's surprised expression hardly changed when the woman put a hand on her good shoulder. She still looked with utter confusion at the blonde woman in front of her. "U-um... that's... that's great," she managed, not sure what kind of reaction Alita was expecting from her.

"Th-thank you?"

"Anytime," the blonde replied, giving Kagura her wild grin as she turned away and headed back to the bed.

"Since you aren't going to turn into a blood-sucking creature of the night, I've got something for you. It's good for keeping things at a distance as well as giving any other vamps that think you might be tasty second thoughts." She picked up the double-ended wooden spear and presented it to Kagura.

"I just made it today," she said, obviously proud of her accomplishments. "You got any experience with spears or staffs?"

Kagura was left scratching her head at the strange woman she seemed to have befriended. She wondered if the smile was supposed to be comforting or if Alita knew that it was just a little scary.

While the spear was a nice gift and Kagura let her good hand curl around the middle of it, she couldn't keep from thinking that if she'd answered one of the questions wrong earlier, this would be going through her, rather than being given as a gift. She felt a little bit sick.

"It... it's really nice," she said honestly, lifting it out of Alita's grasp. She gave it an experimental twirl with her right hand, testing the weight. It was light enough for her to use easily, even with one hand. "A little bit," she nodded. "I've studied since I was about six or seven."

While Kagura was quite right about what probably would have happened had she answered the questions differently or had certain kinda of reactions, the blonde had already moved the thought of vampire!Kagura out of her head. In fact, she was a bit disappointed that the other girl just didn't seem as... excited about the prospect of having a weapon in hand as the bounty hunter did.

"Remember, if you lock it under your arm, you have better control with it one-handed than with the butt end swinging free," she replied, her mild disappointment showing just briefly. "Just be careful, cause this one's double-ended. I didn't have access to a sword to cut a clean edge on it like I did mine," she said with a gesture at the other spear laying on the bed.

The princess tilted her head a little, her eyes softening. "Take care... okay?"

Kagura could almost sense the other girl's disappointment and hoped she hadn't offended her. Really, if she thought about it, the spear was a really nice gift, wasn't it? It meant that she wouldn't have to touch any more icky, nasty bugs, which was probably the best gift she could hope for in a place like this.

She nodded at the advice Alita gave her, then, a bit uncertainly, wrapped her arms around the girl's neck to give her a hug. "Mm, I will. Thank you, really, Alita-hime. I hope I can do something nice for you too."

With as skittish as Kagura was, Falis had not expected the hug, even one as tentative as this. Automatically, her arms found Kagura's waist and she returned the surprising affection with an odd gentleness.

"Nah... you don't need to do that," she replied, her tone clearly indicating she'd been caught off-guard. "Just stay alive, mkay?"

She nodded once again, though she fully intended to make Alita something nice as soon as she got the chance. Though... what kind of things would Alita like?

"I'll do my best," she assured the princess, leaving her with a smile before she headed back to her own room.

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Falis gave Kagura a smile as the girl left and then stood there staring at the door for a long moment. It seemed there still were some people that can catch her off balance; it was a refreshing thought.

Turning back to her bed, the princess flopped down on it, weapons laying next to her, and stared at the ceiling. Now she was back to waiting.

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Alita's room was almost all the way at the end of the hall, and to make things worse, Naminé's flashlight had died halfway down there - it was rather sudden, and she was forced to use her fingertips and count her way down to the end. It should have been the second to last door, if she was right...

The witch gave the door a few hesitant knocks, hoping that this was the right door. Hopefully, Alita might have had a few extra batteries...

"Alita? Are you here?"

Yay!

Falis sprung up off her bed and threw the door open. "Hey," she said to the small girl, grabbing her arm to pull her inside. She closed the door behind her, the room only illuminated by by the flashlight tossed unceremoniously upon her bed. In the faint light, the reddened welt on her neck were barely visible.

"Why are you walking around in the dark? Are you trying to get eaten?" She looked the girl up and down, a stern look on her face, checking to see if Namine had brought her stake with her.

If it weren't for the fact that Alita had spoken before grabbing Naminé's arm, the witch would have shrieked louder. Instead, she only gave a startled cry as she was dragged into safety. With only the dim light from Alita's flashlight, she couldn't see the other girl very well.

"My flashlight died," Naminé explained, lowering the pillowcase where she normally brought her things and dropping the now-defunct flashlight in it. She reached in and felt around with her good hand, fingers brushing up against wood. Indeed, Naminé had brought the stake with her, but now that she couldn't see anything...

"... Do you have any spare batteries, Alita? I only need them for tonight, I'll make sure to get new ones by tomorrow night."

Falis noted the presence of the stake in the pillowcase and nodded, dropping backwards onto her bed next to her weapons and causing the light from the flashlight to move around.

"...what's a battery?"

Oh dear.

"They power the flashlights." Naminé would have demonstrated, but they needed the feeble amount of light coming from Alita's. But perhaps it was not a good idea to take hers, when she didn't even know what they were. Which probably meant she didn't know that they had to be replaced.

"I'm not sure exactly how it works, but they eventually run out of power, and the flashlight won't work without them. I was wondering if you had an extra pair, just for tonight." Naminé remembered that the patients were given an extra pair, so perhaps Alita still had that pair.

"Power the light, huh?" Falis picked her flashlight up and stared at it as if it might volunteer the information of where a battery would be. "What do they look like?"

Naminé bent down again to look through her bag, picking up the flashlight she just tossed in there. She moved closer to the light and laid it on the bed as she felt around for the little plastic cover that held them in place. It slid off with a click and Naminé then dug around, trying to free a battery. She never quite understood why they had to be set in such a specific way.

She finally got one loose, holding up the battery for Alita to see (hopefully).

"They look like this! I'm sure there's more in the Institute somewhere, so I promise to return the ones I borrowed, or give you new ones."

As Namine started fiddling with her own flashlight, Falis leaned in and watched her actions intently. It was mostly through observance (and Dominikov's rants and question answerings) that the bounty hunter knew as much as she did about ancient technology. Ah, so that's what a battery looked like.

"Aaa..." The princess put her face really close to the battery and squinted her eyes as she gave it a good look. She remembered there being something like that when she first found the ancient technology but where did she put them?

"Umm..." Falis sat back, face screwed up in deep thought. "I think I had some..."

Where did she put them? The blonde stuck her arm down in between the wall and the bed, fishing around for the batteries. Not finding them, she shoved her arm down even further before her searching hand connected with something. Grasping the object, she sat up and held out a single battery like it was a war trophy.

Alita looked like she did recognize it, and Naminé was relieved. Hopefully, they would be able to find some more tonight, or at the very least, Naminé could find out where to find some tomorrow. Until then, she waited as Alita started to search...

... In between the wall and the bed. Well, it looked like it was a good place to put things as Alita emerged victorious with a single battery in her hand.

"Oh, thank you!" Naminé knew that the flashlight needed two, but perhaps it would be able to work with just one? Somehow, she didn't think it worked that way, but she shoved the battery back in it's compartment, slid the plastic cover in place, and clicked the flashlight on.

No response.

"I guess it's no good with just one..." Naminé felt like she should help though. Going underneath the bed didn't scare her, she did hide underneath it once when she thought Larxene was coming for her.

Falis' face had turned into a scowl when the prized battery did not make the damn flashlight work. She was reaching to grab the thing and shake life back into it when Namine mentioned needing a second battery. Stopping before grabbing the thing, she glared at the flashlight before scratching her head and sticking her arm back down between the wall and bed.

"Where the fuck did you get to," she grumbled as she fished for the other one that had to be there; she'd knocked both down there days ago. Unless it had grew some legs and walked off... Never mind - she'd have to kill it then.

The princess shoved her arm down even further, cursing at the elusive battery, and all the movement knocked the lit flashlight off the bed and onto the floor where it clicked off. Faced with the darkness, the bounty hunter didn't mind and continued to search.

"Aha! Found it!"

Alita didn't seem amused either, using some very strong language as she started to search for the other battery. Naminé knelt down from where she was standing, intending to help Alita. That is, until she heard something fall onto the floor, and Alita's flashlight clicked off and left them in darkness.

"Aah!" Oblivious to the fact that Alita didn't seem to need light, Naminé started to feel around for the flashlight. How could they find it if there wasn't a light?

After what felt like an embarassingly long time, Naminé's hand brushed up against the flashlight and she was able to click it back on - only to find that Alita had found the other battery.

"Oh, thank you! I'm sorry, I caused so much trouble..." Naminé reached forward to take it.

The flashlight clicked back on to reveal Falis, hair disheveled, blinking her eyes against the sudden reoccurance of light. Namine seemed kinda embarrassed and the princess just didn't understand why. "Eh?"

She stared at the girl for a moment and then, as Namine closed ehr hand around the battery, Falis leaned forward and looped and arm about Namine's waist, swooping her up onto the bed. The princess flopped backwards and started up at the ceiling, grinning for a moment. "I don't get it. Why'd you apologize? You didn't do anything..."

With the last battery in place, Naminé clicked her own flashlight on and smiled as light illuminated the area. Now with her flashlight, she could see around the room much better. Not that it was required, as Naminé knew their own rooms were safe, more or less.

"Well, that's just it. I didn't do anything." Naminé did her best to now frown, though. Alita didn't seem angry, at the very least. "I should have helped more. But, at least you got the flashlight working again..." Speaking of the extra light, now that she focused the beam on Alita -

"Alita! What happened to your neck?"

"Nothing you could do since you didn't know where I'd dropped the damn things," Falis replied with a shrug. She was going to reiterate the whole 'why apologize' thing when Namine got all worried about the princess' neck.

Aww... isn't she a sweet little blonde-doesn't-forget-anything-girl?

"Eh, this?" Putting a hand to her neck, she rubbed the welts a moment and the flopped her arm back onto the bed. "Pansy-ass powerless wizard tried to choke me at lunch," she answered as if such things were an everyday occurance and didn't warrant getting excited over.

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