Routine Check-Up

The hallway leading to the nurse's office was quite long. All the hallways in this place were like that, though. Evidently scale was something Shinigami-sama wasn't particularly well-versed in; traversing these narrow corridors, dusty alcoves and eldritch corners tended to give the impression of wandering through an Escher paintings, but with poorer lighting.

Oh well. It was a beautiful campus all the same, and one Emile was more than happy to be a part of. He was nothing more than a humble student, but he felt as though he belonged here. Every student he passed on the way was a fellow patron of protection for the world. That made him feel very pleasant inside, and he always did his best to bear that in mind when he was unsure of what to do with his school career.

That included right now, at that. He was scheduled for a routine check-up, he knew that much - but actually finding the nurse's office was another matter entirely. In these labyrinthine twists and turns, he had gotten lost twice, nearly fallen off the edge off a misplaced balcony five times and had the strangest sense of spontaneous vertigo too many times for him to recall.

And that was just in the past fifteen minutes.

Holding his hands close to his chest, he could almost have cried when he had found it.

At last!

He glanced at the plaque on the door.

DR. DANIEL NOWAK
SCHOOL NURSE

This seemed to be the place, alright.

With a hesitant sigh, he pushed the door open and pitter-pattered inside.

"H-hello?"