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I can't find the elevator. [Pause.] This isn't the Scrapyard, is
Hang on. Something's moving i
[A long pause, then, slashing across the page in haphazard strokes as if it's being written while running:]
thing following me
hasnt got a head
how do I get out
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Hang on. Something's moving i
[A long pause, then, slashing across the page in haphazard strokes as if it's being written while running:]
thing following me
hasnt got a head
how do I get out
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She concentrates, trying to discern what direction Kurayami is in. It's... vague; her talents with the Force don't lie in this direction, but she needs it to work for this, so she pushes herself until she picks up a glimmer.]
I believe she is this way. Be watchful; there is danger everywhere here.
[She begins hurrying in that direction as she feels other--things begin to take shape around them. Not threats, not yet, but they will be.]
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She's had more than enough of this wilderness, and the things that it's making her see. But getting to the elevator doors is suddenly made difficult, as the three things already coming towards her multiply until there are six facing her.
But giving up is not an option, and so Spear swings out with her spear again, taking down the first of the white spectral beings. She doesn't waste any time, seizing the opportunity to run for the elevator, pursued by the beings from her nightmares.]
Make your escape while you can, Kurayami!
[Spear calls to the other one in between running and attacking. With luck, she and Handmaiden will be able to escape, but there's no point in Kurayami remaining in harm's way as well.]
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Gulping a deep breath, she rushes into the elevator and slams her hand down on the button for the first floor, as far from this place as she can get--
And then she pauses, looking out the closing doors at the roiling maelstrom of battle, and something inside her puts its foot down. Kurayami reaches out and hits the button with the universal symbol for opening doors, and holds it there, watching the doors judder and buck as they try to close and are pushed open again.
She stands with her face set and her teeth gritted, one thumb stubbornly ground onto the button, too aware by now of these things' attraction to loud noises to dare to shout for them to hurry; and she waits for her rescue party to join her.]
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And in the meantime, Spear's troubles are worsening. Handmaiden can see her enemies multiplying, but her five opponents seem unwilling to let her go to the other woman's aid, blocking her and keeping her far too busy. It is all Handmaiden can do, and her fighting devolves--this is a struggle for survival, not victory, and she lashes out in any way she can.
Her months of sparring against Stoneface come back to help her in this fight... outnumbered though she is, Handmaiden knows these women. She has seen this fighting before. And she knows what they will not expect, and does it.
But then the elevator doors begin to open again--Handmaiden lunges for it, the fluorescent light like a beacon now. She slams her arm against the doorway as she uses the Force to blast away a pursuer, unwilling to let it shut until Spear makes it in.]
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Somewhere, far off, she hears a low, haunting whistle. Her heart, already in her throat, freezes. Hardly aware of the fact that she's stopped breathing, Kurayami stares out the elevator door, past the rapidly approaching fire-wreathed figures and the pale silhouettes of the women in white, and somewhere, far off, she sees the glimmer of a single furious eye, rushing closer.]
I...
[Entirely unable to move, she stands there with her fingertip resting in numb shock on the elevator button. The doors are closing, thumping and clanging as they do, but all she can hear is the high shriek of that whistle, and running under it a terrible undercurrent of horror and helplessness. Not this, not this, not this--And the elevator doors slam shut, ( ... )
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