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Nightshift 39: M91-M100 Hallway
"Of all the accursed...why did they have to place his quarters at such a distance from mine!"
Starscream continued to look over his map angrily; shining his artificial light upon the paper clipped into the cover of his notebook, he once again traced the two possible routes needed to get to Lockdown's room. "One is far longer...but potentially safer," he groaned, sliding his finger down the halls, across the large entry way, and back up to his destination. "The other...it takes me to the "soccer/recreational field". That's where that 'meta-bitch' 'Richard' mentioned was, the one who could made extreme cold. On the other hand, it IS shorter..." Closing the book with a sigh, he weighed his options carefully.
Laziness won out.
"As long as I am careful...I might avoid confrontation tonight," he reasoned. Clutching his book, a few pens, and the flashlight tightly, he made his way down to the M-C Block hallway.
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Starscream continued to look over his map angrily; shining his artificial light upon the paper clipped into the cover of his notebook, he once again traced the two possible routes needed to get to Lockdown's room. "One is far longer...but potentially safer," he groaned, sliding his finger down the halls, across the large entry way, and back up to his destination. "The other...it takes me to the "soccer/recreational field". That's where that 'meta-bitch' 'Richard' mentioned was, the one who could made extreme cold. On the other hand, it IS shorter..." Closing the book with a sigh, he weighed his options carefully.
Laziness won out.
"As long as I am careful...I might avoid confrontation tonight," he reasoned. Clutching his book, a few pens, and the flashlight tightly, he made his way down to the M-C Block hallway.
[To ]here]
M100
Satisfied she'd made her walk nice and short, even after being waylaid and kissed (admittedly, her head was still somewhat fuzzy and her cheeks still felt red, but on the whole, she felt good!). Miku adjusted her bag again and knocked on Subaru's door. "Sumeragi-san? Are you awake?"
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Jerking awake suddenly proved to be a bad idea, considering Subaru's wounds, so it was a moment before he recovered his breath and managed to get up to answer the door. "Hinasaki-san. I'm glad you made it safely."
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Well, that was the understatement of the century. Subaru's wounds far outweighed her own, and while she was finally getting peppy enough to slowly walk to the next block, he looked like he'd run a marathon just getting to the door.
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Subaru didn't bother trying for a smile, at the moment, being well aware of how awful he probably looked. "Yes, this is no problem. I sat up too suddenly when I woke from my nap, that's all. It's better I have something to do that doesn't involve going out and running around, anyway." Subaru was not well-suited to extended periods of idleness--he'd doubtless do something stupid like go out if he didn't have something else to do.
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This would be strange, Miku thought as she offered Subaru a little smile. But, I'll do my best so he and Sousuke aren't disappointed in me. "I'll do my best to not disappoint you," she added.
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For now, however, Subaru's mind was on the matter of how much, if anything, he could teach Hinasaki-san with his powers so limited here. "I'm afraid the first bits are really not exciting. A lot of mental discipline and learning to sense the source of your own power. It will be easiest if we sit down." Subaru gestured to his room-mate's bed, and settled down on his own.
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She offered a Subaru a smile in the dim light, "But you know about that, too."
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"They never tried to eat me before." Stab her, set her on fire, decapitate her, draw and quarter her and strangle her, yes. Eat her? Not so much. "Though, when I was touched, sometimes it felt like they were draining away my strength." And, as evidenced by her many bandages, something much worse happened. She didn't say it, but Miku wondered just how different things between her world and his actually were. "And sometimes I saw things about them."
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Subaru hmmed thoughtfully, when Miku mentioned that she was able to perceive things about the spirits when she came into contact with them. "That's unusual, to be able to connect with them that way. It sounds like you have a bit of shamanic power. I speak to spirits, myself, and often they're willing to respond and to tell me about themselves, but that it happens instinctively for you is impressive. If probably unwelcome at times."
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"Only sometimes, though. I see things a lot easier if it's through an object, and with less risk. Usually, when someone like that touches me, I just want to bat it away as quick as possible." Which had various degrees of success, now that she thought about it. "Sumeragi-san? I'm glad that you're easy to talk to about... this kind of thing."
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"My mother, my brother... all the way up the line on my mother's side could do the things I can." If there was anything like hereditary unluck, then her maternal line probably was cursed with it forever. Especially if she could protect Sousuke from things he couldn't hit, like the ghosts that kept cropping up.
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Unlucky, how unlucky.
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"Sumeragi-san, do you ever see the ghosts here in the Institute? Not the ones that anyone and everyone can see, but..." How did she explain this? No one else saw the little helping spirits that sometimes watched from the walls or led her to and from certain places "The ones that help, sometimes."
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It would be better if they snapped themselves out of the painful reverie of their pasts and looked to the present.
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Then again, she didn't stay very long at shrines - there were too many things around before the loss of her abilities, that she'd never gotten into the habit of going regularly.
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She certainly wasn't discouraged. "So, what is the best way? Or is it different for some people?"
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