Talen’s Time Out

Rideten, Present Time

Talen paused in the doorway as a pair of Van Helsing soldiers passed through the hallway beyond. They did not look his way as they passed by the open door. If they had they might have noticed the two bodies that he held by the collars of their uniform and the destruction of the security monitoring room behind him, the third guard on duty lodged still through one of the screens.

He was prepared to kill them should even a stray glance fall his way, and yet neither did, deep in a conversation between them about a girl one of them was going to hook up with their shift ended.

Talen watched them go, mildly amused, noting that they took the stairs up to the next level. He’d be joining them up there soon enough, but for now their death had been delayed by their inattention to their duty.

Once they were gone, he crossed the hallway to the little janitorial closet that he'd located and added the two bodies he held to the pile growing between the shelves of cleaning product