Again there's nowhere he can go, no way he can dodge fast enough -- and again the threat is stopped by an unseen force as Andrew bolts for the exit. He realizes too late that he's dropped his screwdriver, but there's no going back for it now as he charges out into the --
-- Into the other bedroom? He experiences a moment of supreme disorientation, knowing this isn't what was on the other side of the door a moment ago but not knowing what that means. For a second, too, he thinks to close the door behind them, but it won't make any difference; they've already been followed and a door wouldn't hold this creature anyway, not after what he's seen it do. "I've got you!" he tells her again, barely breaking stride as all this flashes through his head. He needs a hand free to open the next door, but she's clinging to him so tightly it doesn't matter that he's only got one left to hold her up. He bounds down the stairs he finds on the other side, taking them two and three at a time.
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-- Into the other bedroom? He experiences a moment of supreme disorientation, knowing this isn't what was on the other side of the door a moment ago but not knowing what that means. For a second, too, he thinks to close the door behind them, but it won't make any difference; they've already been followed and a door wouldn't hold this creature anyway, not after what he's seen it do. "I've got you!" he tells her again, barely breaking stride as all this flashes through his head. He needs a hand free to open the next door, but she's clinging to him so tightly it doesn't matter that he's only got one left to hold her up. He bounds down the stairs he finds on the other side, taking them two and three at a time.