There was a loud thumping sound from down the hall, and Kana snapped back into Alert Mode. She sighed, fingering the object that she'd taken from her room and wishing that she hadn't needed to put it on tonight. But it wouldn't do for her to be discovered, now would it? Suzushii wouldn't like that very much. And as much as she wasn't happy with them, she also didn't want them to cut her legs off and leave her to bleed out on the side of the road like they probably would if she caused enough trouble.

And so, on went the mask.

She turned to Kira, mouth pressed into a thin, hard line, though it was impossible to tell now. Her eyes narrowed. "[color=7ea7d8]I'm going to go see what that was. Want to avoid loss of life as much as I can.[/color]" And so she carefully began her walk down the hall, supporting herself with her hand on the wall. She was keenly aware that she could run into a group of invaders at any time. Edgedancer hovered at the very edge of her awareness, desperately clawing to be unleashed, and she was all too ready to listen. She was reasonably certain that she could take three or four of them at a time. Maybe seven if they were initially unaware of her. But without her tech armor, she wanted to avoid conflict as much as possible. And so she winced with each [i]tink[/i]ing step she took on the hard decking.

After a short, relatively paranoid walk, she turned a corner, then arrived at the cabin that (she thought) the noise had come from. Could always be wrong. She listened for a bit, but heard nothing. Raising her hand, she hesitated for a moment, looking back and forth along the corridor. Her breaths were coming quickly. Her awareness was ratcheted as high as it could go, but she could hear nothing. She hated how vulnerable she felt without Edgedancer, but knew that she was on a high burn, and she only had so much EP to go around. She had the distinct feeling that this was going to be a [i]long[/i] night.

[i]Knock knock[/i]

"[color=7ea7d8]Hey. Anybody in there?[/color]"