The commotion was unexpected, and it happened just as Rosalind reached the nurses' station. She did not even have time to look around for anything before she was pelted with rocks. Shards of glass were flying toward her as well, and as she ran back to her brother and Killian she had received several cuts along her sweater, and pants, and small cuts to her face.
"Where did all this come from," she asked, but a part of her had a feeling it had to do with the amount of energy that was being pulled by their tear device.
"It would seem as if the energy has picked up in this place, possibly due to our device." Robert said out loud as he was hovering behind the somewhat protective covering that Hook provided.
Rosalind grimaced, and her brow furrowed deeply when she saw blood coming from Killian's side. "You're hurt," she exclaimed and had begun to feel something she hadn't felt before - guilt. She had put him and her brother in this situation all because she wanted to test the device. She looked at the machine as it remained steady on the tripod, fortified by the electromagnetic shield that the capacitor had managed to produce around it.
"Robert, quickly, the device has enough power!"
Robert nodded and moved toward the device as Rosalind took out a handkerchief from her pocket, and pressed it against Killian's wound. She did not express her regret verbally (she still was not used to that sort of expression and a part of her truly believed she had nothing to be sorry for), but it was there in her eyes as she looked at him.
"It's ready," Robert yelled over the commotion of the wailing and hissing from the walls. He was not a superstitious man by any means, and he hardly believed in ghosts or ghouls, but the events at the hospital made him wonder just what exactly was in that place. He wasn't one to use the word haunted, but perhaps the hospital was. Robert grabbed the machine off the tripod, and held it steadily in his arms.
"Once I activate the device you all will need to travel through the portal quickly. Though to be clear I have no idea where it will deposit us. I imagine that it would be somewhere safer than here."
Robert turned on the switch, and the machine whirred and hummed, adding to the din of the hospital as it appeared to crumble around them. A beam of light shot from the device, and in the middle of the space a ragged strip of glowing light appeared. It looked like a literal tear in the fabric of space. The edges began to grow, and eventually it turned into a proper, person-sized hole in space. Buildings appeared through the window, and Rosalind recognized it almost immediately.
"Sonheim Square," she said out loud as she grabbed Killian's hand. Sadly it was not another universe, and the portal that was created was only allowing them back to the same old Marrowood. But the creation of a portal was enough of a success for the two scientists.
"Quickly," she said to the pirate as she tugged on his hand.