A quiet night

[chozo_girl]

 [Late night in the Chalice. Most of the personnel is already asleep hours ago, the place is calm and silent, and the lights are a bit more dim. It's quite peaceful compared to the hustle and bustle and noise coming from the hangars that are the norm during the day.

For whatever reason, however, you are going around the corridors, be it because you have business somewhere, needed to go to the bathroom, simply to enjoy the quiet, or any of a myriad other reasons... 

...but despite the apparent peace, if you're in any way observant you'll probably soon feel stalked. Something is observing around the empty, long corridors this particular night. Every now and then there's very quiet, metallic pitter-patter sounds that stop whenever anyone looks around. And sometimes, a low, quiet creak like that of an ungreased old door hinges' opening can be heard, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right. And overall, a definite feeling of observation. 

Definitely unnerving stuff.

How do you react?]

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[littleshortforanelemental]

Still buzzing from the necrosia, Nikolai's senses are already on high alert. So when he hears the skittering he freezes, listens intently for the source, trying to hear it over the sound of his own breathing, unusually loud in his ears.

[chozo_girl]

[With his current hypersensory state, Nikolai might be able to feel the strange sounds that every now and then come from all around, like chitinous clicks. Or, rather, he'll probably realize, those are just echoes. In a place so metallic it's very hard to pinpoint a precise direction to the bouncing sound, but whatever it is, it's definitely not machinery... and inside one of the walls, which is not a place things should be moving]

[littleshortforanelemental]

It's certainly a familiar sound. He's spent enough time around his totem to know what an arthropod moving through tunnels sounds like. Hell, to any beast with the right nose, he probably smells like one, due to the protein markers from the necrosia still in his bloodstream.

His hand reaches for his sidearm but doesn't draw it. He doesn't intend to shoot it off the bat but it can't hurt to have a plan b.

"Come out come out, little one..."

[chozo_girl]

[Nothing comes out. But he might notice, for an instant, four malevolent-looking red eyes gleaming inside one of the vent grills, looking at him before something long and fast slithers away]

[littleshortforanelemental]

Nikolai sprints in the direction of the nearest wall panel, to turn the AC up to maximum.