[falling in from
here]The sound Kurogane made as he fell echoed in the empty hallway and soon faded out to silence. That had been stupid. He should have been more prepared for the lock to snap suddenly and not have gone tumbling into the hallway like that. But the ninja couldn't take back the action now. At least no one had been around to see him
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This corridor was as dark as the rest of them but she could hear voices a little way ahead, see figures moving in the light of Zack's torch. They didn't seem threatening, so she paid them little heed after a cursory glance. Unless they became a threat, she didn't really care too much about them.
There was a door almost as soon as they turned and a few paces further, another, while the corridor stretched out ahead of them. "What do you think, Zack?"
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"It would be kind of embarrassing to miss a treasure trove because we couldn't be bothered to open a door," she replied with a soft laugh. Or to get killed because they hadn't checked it first and there was something waiting behind it. It would be pretty bad to spend the next day bandaged up because of such a rookie mistake.
And then the door didn't open. "Well, that was anticlimactic," she said with a smirk, feeling a little amused at herself for her concern. They could always bust open the door but... "Let's keep going. I'm more interested in learning my way around tonight, I think."
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"Fair enough," he responded easily, moving ahead to the door that was right next to the first. While he would have expected it to be shut just as tight, it looked like someone had beaten them to the punch and broken the lock somehow. At least it made their lives a little easier.
Swinging the door open, Zack directed his flashlight inside and saw... another hallway. "Well, that isn't too interesting," he said bluntly. He moved to the side so that the Turk could poke her head in and see for herself. "What do you think?" He was kind of hoping for something more striking, but he could hear voices in there. Maybe it was worth looking ( ... )
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