<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=93695.msg4112554#msg4112554">Quote from: Kate on 10-01-2011, 14:50:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div align="center"><strong><br/>Kain<br/></strong></div><br/>... and wait Vance did... and waited and waited. <br/>An hour passed still the same scene of what the open doorway to the doctor's office revealed stared back at him.<br/><br/><br/><div align="center">(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2014/1549867867_c65d3d78ce.jpg)<br/></div><br/>Most of the glass lamps should be in working order for they were just recently seen to, still it seemed only half glowed, the others still alight seemed struggling with less gas than they were designed to operate with. Faintly Kain could make out the hiss of the movement of air-fuel which powered them.<br/>Normal days or nights would never seen this, possible let alone likely. As Kain's ears adjusted a new sound could be made out, ever so faint. That of a dripping tap perhaps. One that wasn't near.<br/><br/><hr/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Dr. Kian Vance (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=93697.msg4078125#msg4078125)<br/><br/><br/>Something seems odd... not right about the situation.  It is...annoying.  Something small, nearly insignificant.  Finally it dawned on me.  If an Assimite was using their power to deprive me of sound i would not hear anything, not even the faint hissing that currently eminated from the hall way.  I slowly, cautiously emerged from under the desk and edged my way towards the door.  Peering down the hall and determining no apparent threat, I stalk from shadow to shadow trying to determine what happened to the patients, and what the faint dripping noise was.