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Senses II (Wordcount 227)

direstraits

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This hospital wing seemed deserted. She hated hospitals, and this is not helping. She swallowed, the hint of peppermint from the gum she chewed on the way here lingered. She couldn't remember which turn she took right after she exited the elevator. The nurse back at the main lobby mumbled something about going down this way and that in the sixth floor. Here, the walls were pastel white, as hospitals are expected to be, with the usual whiff of washed linen and antiseptics. The lighting, however, was weak. The place was dim, the fluorescent lamps overdue for replacement. There was no one around. Standing where she was, in front of the ward's unmanned reception desk, she could see down one corridor where the lights flickered like an operator tapping out morse codes, complete with the mechanical tick-tick-tick-tick as the lights struggled to stay on. Her office shirt plastered to her sweat-slicked back. Suddenly, she glimpsed a lady down the hallway. Relieved, she hurried over, eager to find her way out to the main lobby, and hopefully out of the place altogether. As she neared the figure, however, Mori's mind seemed suddenly to panic, screaming to the rest of her body to stop moving. Her conscious thoughts seemed to finally catch up a split-second behind. There was something not quite right about the figure in front of her.
 
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