Odd.
Given what she remembered, Sue expected some sort of hospital or laboratory, some place that could cure the blind (and give amnesia and turn your head into a giant eyeball, apparently). She had expected to see people bustling about, performing expirements and procedures and tests.
Well, maybe that was past the stairs.
Then again, there was all the mold in the previous room. She didn’t know what a lab or a hospital should look like – she’d never seen one, for obvious reasons – but weren’t they supposed to be clean? Even the floor here, though thankfully free of mold, felt dirty, and the room smelled dusty and old. She realized this grey stuff must be what dust looked like, though again she’d not seen it before.
Wait. Dust implies a place is unused, but then how did we get in there? Someone must have brought us there… is there another door we missed?
Well, she wasn’t about to go back into that room and find out. Not when there was a way to go onward, stairs leading to the unknown. Though perhaps she should lead the powerful one go first, just in case it was dangerous.
Sue moved to the side and gestured toward the steps. “Ladies first,” she said, looking at Eve. Wait, we’re both ladies. Well, whatever, I’m still saying that.