Alexis continued up the stairs: her heart still raced from the encounter with the beast. Alexis felt almost as if it was just over her shoulder, waiting for her to drop her guard.
No
She needed to calm down; panicking wasn’t going to get her anywhere, it was only then that She realized she was gripping her gun with a force so great it had gone completely numb. She took a deep breath and return the weapon to her pocket. Alexis returned her attention back to calming down.
Inhale
One…Two…Three…Four…Five
Exhale
One…Two…Three…Four…Five
Inhale
One…Two…Three…Four…Five
Exhale
One…Two…Three…Four…Five
She had done this many times prior, but never had it been in a situation like this. No one in here had control, they were all subject to the whims of whoever put them in this hellscape. All these people were similar to her in that they possessed some unnatural ability, perhaps this was a series of tests to find the root cause?
Alexis froze as she laid her eyes on the next room, she thought she had heard a voice echo up from lower down on the stairs, it sounded like a child, Then it clicked for her. The tightly wrapped blanket she had bolted past in her blind panic, it was a child, there was a child in here.