Escape is your highest priority

Elise lets out a deafening howl that echoes terrifyingly through the stairwell and your body makes the first reasonable decision it's made all day, you're sprinting down the stairs before your mind can catch up. The walls reverberate with the demon's fury and you have the distinct feeling of prey surrounded by predators.

You **** yourself to slow down as you wrestle with the blind panic. You certainly have enough adrenaline pumping through you to sprint all the way to the ground floor but what then? From what you'd seen this morning security was tightest in the lobby, which made a grim kind of sense now: they didn't care where you went or what you saw, so long as you didn't leave.

You shiver. Running straight for the exit probably won't work... you obviously can't hide forever... but laying low and getting your bearings couldn't hurt right?

Heavy footfalls sound high above you, vaguely reminiscent of Elise's formerly dainty clopping, heralds her departure. You have until she finds another way around to make up your mind.