Alice peered about once outside the room. She was immediately overwhelmed by a rush of sound coming from so many different places it should have overloaded her senses.
But it didn't.
A male human snored behind one door. Footsteps were pacing five doors down. Outside, a car, a model-t by the sound of it, drove past the building which encompassed her. So much knowledge, all those quick realizations pelted her at the same time. Alice grabbed her head and balled up in a corner. There were so many sounds, smells, and she heard and smelled every one of them.
Footsteps once again, echoed down the corridor, growing louder and louder. They were coming closer. Alice's throat felt like it was being ripped from her once more. Within a second, Alice had stood up, whirled around, and kicked down the doors to a separate hallway.
The nurse didn't even have a chance to scream.
Alice left the body where it was, limp and white, and continued down the hallway. Each door she passed caused her throat to tear up in pain and it took every ounce of her self control to just keep walking. Her resolve wavered more than once.
As Alice was feeding on a younger human, a small girl, something strange happened. Pictures flashed before her eyes, vivid and colorful. They repeated themselves over and over again, like a movie being played back more than once at the theatre. They featured a man, with brilliant blonde hair and vividly red eyes, sad eyes. He looked down at the body of a human woman, in a long, white dress with a high neck. She was limp and white, like the people Alice had fed on. The man looked at the woman and choked, "I'm so sorry."
