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[h3]Eastern Yharnam, relatively near the Hunter's clinic[/h3]
A wicked smile played on Victor's lips for a second when Adelicia assured them that she could keep up. He found great amusement in imagining what would happen if he just turned on the spot and sprinted through the streets toward the clinic as fast as he could... how panicked she would be once she realized that her puny little human frame could not possibly keep up with a Hunter. Raine could probably keep up just fine – if anything, Victor suspected that Raine might outpace him – but her? She would be helpless.
This amusement was interestingly in conflict with the simultaneous annoyance Victor felt toward the woman, her obvious reservations toward the two of them and her inexperience, though. He found that he wanted to go to her, seize her by her dainty little shoulders and shake some sense into her, yelling at her to make her look them in the eye. It took a moment for Victor to realize that his irritation in this was not actually rooted in thirst for violence or sadism, this time, but in genuine concern; he really wanted to make sure that she was conscious of people's eyes so she might recognize those driven mad by the scourge of beasts, even if they had not yet shed their human form.
He wondered what meaning these feelings might hold, and what they might suggest about him. Did one make him evil while the other redeemed him? Ah... trying to make sense of his thoughts was too hard. It would do him much better to find someone to hunt.

Annoyed at the fact that he was taking Raine's advice – not intentionally, but because they had to move on regardless of whether it had been suggested or not – Victor turned his attention back to the street in front of them and walked on, fighting back the urge to run so that Adelicia might [I]actually[/I] be able to keep up. His eyes resumed their wild shifting, examining every ledge, window and shadow, looking and hoping for prey to reveal itself.
It only took another several minutes of walking before the trio reached a place where the street they had been traveling formed a T, their street ending where another two lead to either side. The direction they had been traveling was entirely blocked by a massive structure: a sheer brick wall standing easily sixty-five feet tall, erected for reasons beyond the need to know of lowly Hunters and with a small iron guard rail at the top. He knew that this was not actually a wall, but rather the edge of the elevated plateau they would need to ascend to in order to reach the clinic, practically inaccessible aside from a few designated paths planned by the Healing Church, one of which was the elevator they were bound for.
Yharnam had a strange thing with elevators that Victor never really understood. There were elevators elsewhere, of course – the basic technology was old by now and had been used since ancient times – but nowhere else were elevators as plentiful as here. He had wondered why, at times, and thought that maybe it was because most beasts were too stupid to figure out how to operate them, thus ensuring that only those sound of mind could traverse them... and then he had shrugged it off and thought about other things.

Victor turned to the right at the intersection and was immediately met by the sight of the elevator shaft – a simple chimney-like structure of stone stretching from the ground to the lip of the plateau above – and immediately noticed three things.
The first was the huge form of the [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bloodborne/images/5/5f/Church_Giant_%E2%84%963.png/revision/latest?cb=20180401090243]church giant[/url] who, despite its designated role as guardian of this place, appeared to be fast asleep next to the elevator.
The second was some scattered blood splatters – a small one in front of the elevator, a larger one smeared across the wall to the right of it and several other, smaller splatters in the area further to the right – forming a trail toward where the [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bloodborne/images/c/c1/Church_Servant_%28Cane%29.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180823150244]church servant[/url] lay in a pool of blood, his arms sprawled to the sides and his staff nowhere to be seen.
And finally, the third was that the elevator itself was not currently at the bottom level.