Night 55, Main Hallway 2-West
[from here]No one else was up here yet, at least not in sight. The hall off to his left still seemed almost to pulse with the unnatural quiet, as if it were a dark blot on Mello's mental map of the place. He didn't so much as swing the flashlight beam towards it; he turned quickly away, heading for the closet where he'd got his pipe. It seemed so
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Rapunzel poked her head out into the next hallway with no small amount of relief, letting the smell from the stairwell waft out and away from the narrow space. She looked left. She looked right. She listened. There didn't seem to be any danger so far, and no other carcasses like the ones they had just trod around.
"So you sort of know the way from here?" Rapunzel asked Soma, taking a moment to lean her head and shoulder against the wall. The rush up the stairs combined with her fatigue had not done good things for her stamina levels.
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Her hands tightened instinctively around the spear and the flashlight. Don't think about that. Maybe she couldn't help her reaction to the sudden closeness of the experimental rooms, but she didn't have to dwell on it. It didn't help her, it didn't help anyone. Focus.
She clenched her jaw and glanced at Rapunzel, making sure the other girl was all right before she moved forward.
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