Night 56: M11 - M20 Hallway
[M20]There had been no orders from Sora as far as Kratos was aware of; it gave him cause to worry only because he tended to do poorly without some sort of direction or objective. This might have persuaded him to indeed take the night off again, but he had by some miracle managed to finish all of his dinner, and it had granted him enough - or at
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If Byrne didn't make it here soon he'd go tearing after him. The men's cell block wasn't that big and he hadn't run into anything nasty walking there before, but a lot of strange things could happen here. And Byrne was unarmed. Badd tried to relax and trust in his partner's ability to walk in a straight line without falling over and killing himself but it was hard not to worry every time Byrne went out of his sight.
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Oh good, no need to wander around hoping he knew where the door was. Badd was conveniently standing right there waiting for him. How nice. Of course, Byrne wasted no time running up to the old detective once he spotted him standing around in the dark. "Badd!"
...Wow, he actually had a lollipop? Byrne was this close to asking him where he got that from until he remembered oh yeah, Doyleton, durr. Where else would he have gotten it? Where would Byrne have gotten those Swiss rolls earlier? Sheesh, he was seriously out of it tonight.
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Inside Badd's room the radio crackled, and the little soap opera of two noteworthy individuals played out. Badd listened to it with a scornful expression, twisting his lollipop stick in annoyance, and when they finished he grabbed the little radio from his desk.
"Sounds like we have a turf war going on. Interesting." He dropped his hand from the stick and hooked his thumb in his pocket, the closest he ever got to standing at attention in front of anyone. "Where to, Mr. Faraday?"
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"Just to the rec field. I know it's possible to get over the walls, and there's a second floor, but no idea beyond that." He tapped his stick, pondering. "Might as well spend this round exploring. A lot of people are just trying to get out of the institute, but there's really no point. We know it's not our world, one way or another. We can't walk home." And his conversation with Lana was still weighing heavily on his mind. It wouldn't be enough to just escape to his own time and place. Badd needed to go to the right time and place.
Landel hadn't pulled them all here out of kindness, but if whatever he'd done could be reversed...there was his second chance. He could make the world right.
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Kay was the first thing that flashed through Byrne's mind when Badd said those words. She had escaped over those walls two nights ago, but if this wasn't their world, then...then...
No. Somehow she would be okay. She would find a way back. She would. Byrne winced as he tried to ignore all the negative thoughts; but unfortunately for him, he didn't realize how obvious the gesture was until a few moments after he did it. He instantly tried to look as if nothing were wrong, despite the fact that Badd probably would have seen that (and might've even understood why he made the gesture in the first place).
"Then let's get moving," he said, trying to think of things that didn't involve his little girl being in danger in any way.
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"Moving where, exactly?" he asked, shutting the door up behind them. He had his flashlight, of course, but the notebook was tucked into his pocket with the radio. This place didn't give you a coherent map.
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Whether Badd agreed to go there or not, Byrne turned and started walking so they could at least get moving somewhere. It was better than standing around here any longer.
[To here.]
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He dressed quickly, took his radio, journal, and saber, and headed out the door with a perfunctory inclination of the head to Badd.
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