[He doesn't hear the thing behind him anymore, either the familiar voice calling out cruel things or the uneven tread he'd hopefully made far more obvious, but that doesn't mean he stops his determined sprint across the campus. It was good that he hadn't been stabbed higher up and risked his lungs -- running, at least, is still easy, even with his backpack jostling hard and slamming against his back with each new push off the ground. All in all, he's not doing bad at all. It's just that he'll be much better once he ducks inside Lumière's dorms, finds Imelda, and is able to calm back down. That's when things will hurt more, he knows from experience, but he can also not bleed as much while he works on fixing himself.
Maverick feels pretty good about his plan, underneath the annoyance he has about how everything fucking sucks. And the fear he doesn't want to acknowledge. It's even easier to push aside when he crashes into the lobby and sets himself to change course up the staircase, only to stop dead in his tracks instead. Oh, right. They were on this floor, weren't they? And there was more they could do than he can.]
Rover! Hey, please be home!
[Banging his fist clinging tightly to his knife against their door is probably unnecessary, but oh well. Just gotta do what he can to make sure he gets someone's attention, since it seems he's gotten a break from his pursuer.]
stabbening
Maverick feels pretty good about his plan, underneath the annoyance he has about how everything fucking sucks. And the fear he doesn't want to acknowledge. It's even easier to push aside when he crashes into the lobby and sets himself to change course up the staircase, only to stop dead in his tracks instead. Oh, right. They were on this floor, weren't they? And there was more they could do than he can.]
Rover! Hey, please be home!
[Banging his fist clinging tightly to his knife against their door is probably unnecessary, but oh well. Just gotta do what he can to make sure he gets someone's attention, since it seems he's gotten a break from his pursuer.]