[KQ] twinkle, twinkle

Anju

tried to wash you down with something strong
But the taste of blood remains

Sohalia shifts and departs, Koa looks into her eyes and disobeys her, running straight into the building and taking his mother's eyes with him, and Anju's head is so full of screaming that logic does not have space. "Koa!" she shouts uselessly, professionalism out the window - and she abandons the stranger and Sohalia outside to chase after him. No, no, not you too.

The clamor of evacuation is disorienting enough to shake her back into some manner of control, and some form of martyrdom overtakes Anju. "I'm getting to the top, don't linger," she calls to Koa, already sprinting for the stairs and taking them at full speed with her long legs. She prays he will not follow her if she takes the task first. She prays he gets out. To Riya outside, she commands her sister to head for the glass dome of the observatory so she can be Anju's eyes instead of the telescope for the moment.

- - -

Assuming it will take a full turn or two to get three stories, Anju heads for the telescope inside and sends Riya outside to the glass dome, hoping to use her eyes for keeping track of the mothman's trajectory (and maybe figure out what's luring him) while she's going up the stairs.

Cold, empty mattresses and falling stars
My, how they start to look the same