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Nightshift 45: M11-M20 Hallway
[from here]
Oh, so this was the hall he needed to be in. At least, he was pretty sure it was the right place. If he remembered right, the man on the bulletin board talking about Search and Rescue, his name was Phillip Hunt. If there were only two people in a room, though, it shouldn't be too hard finding him.
Allen shone the flashlight up on the wall, following the numbers. M14, where was M14...
[moving down to here]
Oh, so this was the hall he needed to be in. At least, he was pretty sure it was the right place. If he remembered right, the man on the bulletin board talking about Search and Rescue, his name was Phillip Hunt. If there were only two people in a room, though, it shouldn't be too hard finding him.
Allen shone the flashlight up on the wall, following the numbers. M14, where was M14...
[moving down to here]
Re: Outside M20
He stepped back automatically as it appeared in front of him, but it soon vanished again. "What was that?" he asked the other man as he brandished his flashlight. It wasn't the most menacing of weapons, and probably wouldn't do much against something without true form, but it made him feel better to have something in his hand all the same.
Should they retreat back into one of the rooms, or would that just be leaving them cornered? He didn't want it going after Luke either.
Re: Outside M20
The rurouni started to slowly back down the hall, and indicated that Cloud should do the same, when the temperature dropped suddenly.
"It's some sort of spirit or...apparition, or..." He shrugged hopelessly. "This one has stopped being surprised by the things this place throws at us at night, honestly. At any rate, if it's made of air weapons won't be of much use. Yuffie-dono is more important than wasting time with an impossible creature."
Re: Outside M20
And as it moved it gave voice to a despairing wail, a piercing sound that drove into ear and mind alike and brought a chill far beyond the physical cold surrounding them. It echoed against the listener's own memories of grief, loss, despair, as though trying to force them to feel as it did.
Re: Outside M20
The change in temperature had to be a result of whatever this ghostly child was doing, and that was enough of an ill omen. The noise that followed caused Cloud to clamp his hands over his ears, causing a far too familiar mental flash of white light and replaying of painful memories. After a stunned pause, in which his balance was shaken, the blond forced himself ahead. He reached out to grab Kenshin's arm as he moved, to pull him along faster. Screw slow and cautious, he wasn't sticking around where anything could mess with his mind.
Re: Outside M20
No. He wasn't going to let that image take hold of him. Not now, not when there was work to be done and the creature was so obviously trying to manipulate them whatever way it could. He put on an extra burst of speed as they ran, trying to put as much space between them and the child-thing as he could.
Re: Outside M20
Yet even as the sound began to move away, farther down the hallway, the bitter chill still hung heavy in the air. Although its spectral form had vanished again the being was quite clearly still present, even if it seemed to have subsided for the time being.
Re: Outside M20