Night 56: Sun Room

[ninelivesonce]

[from here]

The sun room was quiet, with the artificial hush that came from snow blanketing the big windows. The halls upstairs weren't; while it wasn't quite a fight that had broken out up there, it was heading that way. Possibly irrevocably, as what the boy up there had just called the brainwash brigade didn't do negotiation. At all. Even if

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[scarletspeedstr]

[from here]

The sun room was, as pretty much every place here was of a night, dark. But for once it wasn't empty, though Wally wasn't sure if that was really a good thing or not. He hoped that there being other people here already meant that they'd be safe going through here, because the last thing he wanted was another attack when he was pretty much running on empty and both he and Edward had wrecked arms. He wouldn't be able to protect Edward as well as he could if he was fed and healthy and he'd never forgive himself if someone else he was with got badly hurt.

So while Wally held out hope that they'd get lucky and that they wouldn't get attacked, he still kept an eye on the area, trying to figure out the best way he could use what little speed he had here to get Edward out of the way first if something did attack before helping the others here.

[sanguinario]

"You worry too much," Edward said quietly, entering the dark behind him. Even to Edward's eyes - though they were significantly less powerful than they once had been - the room was too dark to see very far past the flashlight. This room had always been on his avoidance list; a near-permanent resident considering the risks involved. That was exactly why he had to go, though. He couldn't trust nothing would go wrong if Bella ever attempted this trip. She needed food or she was going to waste away, and that was more than enough to keep Edward convicted

[scarletspeedstr]

"In this place, can you really blame me?" Wally returned, keeping his voice low as he led the way further across the room. The cafeteria wasn't much further, but at night the sun room felt way bigger than it had any right to be. He kept expecting something to jump out at him or grab him like it had the night before.

Edward's words distracted him from the crawling feeling at the back of his neck, and Wally shot him a tight, amused smile. "You don't know that, and even if you did, I'd take the risk anyway than leave someone to get hurt. Now come on, the door's right here."

And to his relief, it was, solid and exactly like it was supposed to look and nothing looking like it was about to eat them either. Still, there was no point in waiting around, so Wally pushed the door open and ducked through it.

[Bending time a little to bypass the fight with permission and heading here]