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here.]He had reached the meeting point in less than a few minutes and there was still not another patient to be seen. Castiel paused, standing near the wall as he moved his flashlight up and down the corridor. There was nothing, not the sound of a shadow slipping through the dark; not the whisper of something less than human
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By this point, usually Lightning would have turned off her lighting device already. Right now, though? She knew that she just really couldn't afford it, at the cost of potentially missing something in the darkness. She definitely wasn't a cat or anything, and the powers afforded to a l'Cie didn't include anything quite as useful for a time like this, even if she had been at full strength.
Of course, the act of carrying the light around also made her more visible to others as well... and she knew already that it was entirely possible that Hope may try to actively avoid her if he was the one to spot her first...
But damn it, what was she supposed to do ( ... )
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Still no sign of Hope. Once again, Lightning was left with a choice, and once again she paused, at a loss for what to do. If she couldn't manage to scrape enough luck together to just run into the teen, dare she really spend the rest of her inevitably short night wandering the front of the building, counting on that already tiny, waning, vague chance?
All this, right after she'd gotten after Zack the night before for not keeping track of Cloud. Annoyance caused her chest to tighten, and she rolled her shoulders a few times to try and relieve the rising tension as she turned to once more lean against one of the walls.
Was it really possible that this was her fault?
Her eyes were wide as she stared down towards the end of the main hall, then turned towards the first off-shooting one, wishing desperately that her way were clearer- both in front of her and behind her, in whichever path that had managed to land her in his hellhole.
Down the hall she was facing was where she knew Snow's room was, but if she also knew ( ... )
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