13 The Red Crab (1/2)
Walking along the sect grounds, Sofie soon came to stand in front of a row of houses lined up side by side with each other.
Looking around, Sofie discovered a sign in front of the house in the front reading 'room 0550 – 0554'.
Remembering her room being number 0603, she looked into the distant and saw the houses going on for what looked like forever, so with a goal in mind, Sofie made her way down the row of houses.
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”F-finally here…!” Sofie let out an exhausted breath, as she looked at the house in front of her.
The distance to the house from the gathering hall would normally not be that long, but Sofie went down the wrong row of houses and ended up at a dead end with a house having the numbers 'room 0596 – 0600' in front of it. Apparently, each row of houses had only went up till the 50 rooms per row, from the lowest number to the highest… Meaning she had to go back all the way to where the houses started.
Standing in front of the room, Sofie entered and looked around.
The house was empty, and it was simple to the extreme with only a kitchen, bath and four personal rooms. There was not even a living room and only four personal rooms inside the house. Maybe the time to meet with others was not spent at home but outside?
Thinking this, Sofie remembered how many disciples she saw chatting together with each other back in the gathering hall. Maybe the name 'gathering hall' had this meaning to it, a place where the disciples would gather together, spent their free time and chat together.
Rumble
A loud rumbling sound interrupted her train of thought, as Sofie's stomach started rumbling in protest, demanding to be fed.
”Waah! I almost forgot about senior sister Ling Yue!” Sofie remembered her promise with senior sister Ling Yue to go out and get something to eat and quickly found room 0603 and opened up the door with the key she got from the old lady at the gathering hall.
Entering, Sofie brought forth the backpack she packed before leaving home and quickly opened it up on top of the bed.
Sofie's favourite plushies were all in full display, as she had clearly forced in quite a few of them when she left.
Sofie did not pay much attention to them as she quickly inspected the room and soon found a closet located in the corner of the room. The clothes in her backpack was soon picked up and transferred into the formerly empty closet.
Sofie was just about to leave the room, as she looked back and saw her cute and fluffy plushie laying disorderly on the bed.
Sofie could almost feel the pain of her plushies laying randomly on the bed, having been thrown to the side when she took the clothes beneath them in the backpack.
With an apologetic and slightly painful expression, Sofie turned around and moved out of the room while murmuring how she really could not waste even more time to herself.
Closing the door to her personal room, Sofie locked the door and walked out of the house towards the direction the mission hall was located at according to the old lady.
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Not much time passed, as an exhausted Sofie found herself in front of the mission hall. Today, she had really run around a lot more than she used to and did not feel like moving around so much anymore. The only thing that kept her going was the thought of food, that senior sister Ling Yue said she would get her.
”There you are! I thought you would show up much sooner, but maybe you are not that hungry?” A teasing voice came from behind her and Sofie turned around, just to look directly into Ling Yue's face.
Ling Yue had a teasing smile on her face, as she looked at her. ”So… Are we going to get something to eat? I will show you a great place to eat! By the way, did you get lost on your way to the gathering hall?”
Ling Yue said, as the smile on her face slowly widened slightly more than before.
”Y-yes, I-I got lost on my way, b-but how did you know?” Sofie felt ashamed, as she asked in a stuttering tone.