Re: [Portal: Holly & Noah]
Holly was pretty sure that the military viewed Noah in the same way they'd viewed Bea: As young, without resources, and able to be bought off fairly cheaply. Not that he was thinking about that right now, because he'd kind of accepted that as a given ages ago. He didn't hold the cards in this entire military situation, and all the Reddit posts in the world hadn't helped him glean an out from his current situation. Which led him here, and there had been a plan, right? There had been some kind of plan to not walk as far into this place as he was right now, but that was so forgotten. It wasn't that he was running madly or anything, and he wasn't active subsumed by panic panicpanicpanic. But standing still just wasn't going to happen. So, right. Movefastergomove.
He didn't run. He knew that running would be noisy and draw attention, and, look, he wasn't sure what was in here; they'd never told him that. But he knew they hadn't armed him because it was going to be some kind of fucking party in here, right? So, he kept moving. And he had no idea what Noah was up to, but he knew Noah was up to something, right? You never listen, you know that? We had a rule, right? For if something like this happened. And chastising Noah? Helped. It was a focus. Something to cut through the cold he, Holly, could feel down to his fucking bones, and the suffocating feel of yellow fabric over his mouth and nose.
Keep walking. Rightwalkrightrightwhatwasthat? A sound. Left, a sound to the left. Something big? Okay. Faster. Still quiet though. Where am I walking to? Any clue? Because the way in isn't going to work, and I'm pretty sure they'd shove me back in or shoot me, so, right. And the ringing was insanely loud. Crazy, crazy, crazy loud. It's so loud. Though he didn't specify what was loud, but maybe he didn't need to. It sounds like when I got here. God, it did, and he wasn't sure what was worse, right? The pain in his head or the cold in his body. Hey, humor a guy and tell him how much you'd miss him. Which was selfish as fuck, but, whatever.