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After wrestling with it for a bit, you decide to cut through into the hallway. You have to figure that it is better to deal with the danger that you know, as opposed to the danger you don't - and you have absolutely no idea what kind of state that room is in. That settles it for you. You haul yourself over to the furthest hallway facing corner. Before you begin cutting, you turn around one last time to make sure that the drone's attention is still preoccupied with attempting to bait you into the big hallway. From what you can see, the light from the drone's eye is still back there, bright as it ever was. Feeling as comfortable about this course of action as you possibly can under the circumstances, you turn back to the wall, and trace the perimeter of the panel with your wrecking torch. You make the cross-cut, then you brush aside the spalling and micro-debris to grab the uppermost piece of paneling to pull through the gap between the struts.
As soon as you pull it out of position, you recoil. Light is beaming down the hallway! Instinctively, you turn around and look towards the hole you came in by. There is still light there, but now it has noticeably dimmed a bit. In fact, you can see it get dimmer and dimmer as you watch. You turn back to the hole that you just cut, and to your alarm you can see <span class="mu-i">that</span> light get brighter and brighter. Fuck you sideways, the drone has <span class="mu-s">two</span> eyes. The ass-end one must have picked up the light from your wrecking torch, or maybe the lights from your suit gleaming through the slits you cut. You shove your head through the struts to take a look - okay, it is further away than you thought. That's ... you suppose that is something. More than something, really, it is everything. You should be able to pull yourself through these struts and then use your booster to get away - these hallways are more than large enough for you to safely use the jets. And you have the schematic to use as a map, though at the moment you have it stowed in its tube.
Your concern here is what happens if this damn thing starts chasing you through the halls? Would it be safer to cut into the other room? Would that even work, now that the drone is on the alert?
