When she raised her head back up to the others in the room the two others were definitely calmer, so that was good at least. The woman seemed apprehensive, still studying Nisha with a careful eye. Her brown eyebrows furrowed as her blue eyes kept looking Nisha up and down, the whole ordeal was definitely cementing the over woman’s feeling like she was in a movie. She almost (or actually did) die and now apparently had weird anime powers for christ’s sake!

Alex was much more moved by the mist’s sudden disappearance, putting a friendly and unassuming smile on his face. He clapped his hands together as he smiled and Nisha noticed him take a step backwards, towards the door.

“Well! Now that’s settled!” He said brightly, turning towards the other woman in the room. “Should we introduce her to the others?”

“I-I still need to check some of her vital signs and see if she’s up to even standing around for this long.” The woman said at about the same time Nisha remarked “There are others?!”

Both the mystery woman and Alex turned towards Nisha immediately in shock. She half expected one of them to gasp and point in her direction uttering ‘she can speak!’ Or something similarly corny out of a low budget black and white sci-fi film. Again, that would only reinforce the surreal feeling she was currently experiencing and with the type of day she was having right now? She probably wouldn’t even be thrown off one bit.

Instead Alex extended his unassuming smile towards her.

“Of course! There’s five of us, we were really shocked to find you since this place is kind of deserted. Are you feeling alright?”

“I’m fine” Nisha replied in an offhand and distracted manner as she tried to look through the door into where she assumed the other three group members were. Supposedly.

Alex seemed nice enough, Nisha would definitely give him credit for that. He seemed like the type of guy that carefully constructed himself in a way that was charismatic and unobtrusive, which she wasn’t particularly against but charismatic types are always by definition friendly; and she was not in the mood to make friends.

Alex’s face fell a little bit at the corners as soon as Nisha brushed him off. Good, maybe he’d leave her alone then.

He said the facility was deserted but there surely had to be a simple way out. Even if every common entrance and exit was locked, emergency exits exist. The ragtag group of Alex and his friends probably were just held up because they wanted to make friends with each other and they were concerned about Nisha’s well being right? There definitely wasn’t any other reason for six people to be in a building together for an inexplicable amount of time, and they definitely were not trapped together inside this place. Nope.

The rational scientist in Nisha’s head knew that wasn’t true, but she had to believe that it was, the alternative made her terrified and she was not going to let these bozos know she was scared.

As soon as she tried to make a few steps in the door’s direction she immediately felt her legs wobble like jelly, and then proceed to completely give out on her which made for a fitting dramatic exit. The mystery woman was at Nisha’s side in an instant, draping Nisha’s arm around her neck for support.

“No! See? Alex this is exactly what I was t-talking about!” She said, scolding the man in question with a quick and fervent frown. If looks could kill Alex would be stuck in a room on house arrest. Or maybe it would be the mystery woman serving her life sentence since she killed Alex with her look in this metaphor? That definitely wasn’t nearly as poetic that’s for sure.

“Are y-you alright?” The woman asked, cutting Nisha out of her trance and back into the real world.