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If there was any time to head upstairs, it’d be now! With Pepper in tow you cautiously make your way upstairs, making sure to stick to the carpeted sections for extra <span class="mu-s">STEALTH!</span>
“<span class="mu-i">Careful!</span>” Heeding your partner’s warning, you follow her gaze and just barely manage to notice two <span class="mu-s">SECURITY CAMERAS</span> overlooking the <span class="mu-s">MEZZANINE</span> and the <span class="mu-s">ELEVATOR DOORS</span> up ahead! Thankfully they appear to be on a rotation pattern, and when you see their telltale red lights shift away from your position you scurry up the rest of the stairs!
You’re just about to take in the sights when you hear them-a pair of small, booted feet approaching from the hallway to the right of the <span class="mu-s">ELEVATOR</span>! Taking position behind yet <span class="mu-i">another</span> conveniently-placed plant, you hold your breath as Pepper takes the one across from you and does the same!
Your nose picks up a peculiar aroma of black coffee and a cocktail of unrecognizable chemicals–medical, if you had to guess! The scent’s owner appears shortly after, and you quickly recognize her as the nurse you saw earlier in your… <span class="mu-i">cell</span>...
Taking a slow swig from her mug, the blue-haired woman stops in front of the elevator doors between you and slaps the ‘<span class="mu-s">DOWN BUTTON</span>’ with the gentleness of someone who clearly doesn’t wanna be here tonight. For a moment her tired eyes shift in your direction, but the ‘<span class="mu-i">ding</span>’ of the lift stops her just in the nick of time!
Adjusting her long, flowing lab coat with a quiet grunt, she enters the elevator and pulls a plain black flip-phone out of her pocket as she waits. Tapping away at it for a moment, her weary expression shifts into something resembling a frown as the doors close!
“Friend of yours, slick?” Pepper asks, effectively breaking you free of your trance with a raised eyebrow.
Not sure, you shrug-she stuck you with a needle earlier when you had your little argument with that security guard at the docks, but other than that you dunno…
“Hm.” Frowns your partner as she stares at the elevator doors, “Okay!”
Keep it down, damn it!
>CONTD.
