ROOM 211

PART TWELVE

15.

Within a bed within a currently unknown room within a currently unknown building, a young woman has awoken. This is not Room 211 of The Mulberry Hotel though it is a room just as relevant as Room 211 of The Mulberry Hotel and it may take some time before such a fact can be truly known.

Unknowingly to herself, and to others including a lady who did wake in Room 211 of The Mulberry Hotel, this young woman is just one of a number of people on this day to awake suffering memory loss within a town none of them are as of yet properly or even fully aware of.

This room she woke in ... it is hardly illuminated though it is lit to the point where she can see her surroundings. Outside the room beyond the doorway, it is dark, quite dark. It is so dark that nothing could have been seen of what is beyond this room through the glass panels prior to opening the door she reached for; then again, those glass panels are rather dirty. If she has been brought here, to wherever it is here is, then why here and not some place ... cleaner? Maybe here had once been ... cleaner.

She sticks her head past the door to see what might be seen in an effort to be able to revert back inside the room as quickly as she can if she needs to, not that doing so can do her any good if there proves to be trouble nearby.

This doorway she is at is the only one into and out of the room so if any kind of trouble is near then there really isn't anywhere for her to go. If someone or something threatening sees her then hiding under a bed will not and cannot save her. She realizes this fairly quickly though, as it would appear, there is no one in the immediate vicinity. There had been someone else but that was ... that was before.

Calling out to see if she receives a reply is not something she particularly wants to do, so stay as silent as possible is how she moves forwards. Now wholly out in a hallway, she can better take in her surroundings despite how dark it is. As she comes out of that doorway, when she looks left, she can see a short staircase that leads downwards and a compulsion takes her towards the top of those steps.

Going down there can only be a bad idea based on looks alone, but what if this is the way out of this building. There is no signage, nothing in particular which might suggest any possible way out, so in a way making the choice to go down there in an effort to find a way out is as good an option as any. This first choice is a kind of a fifty-fifty choice, either left and down or right only to soon be given a further option of either left or right.

Yeah, based on that look alone, not that much of anything can be seen, it more than likely not a way out but the compulsion to go down these steps and at least investigate is too great. There could be anything down there including a possible multitude of danger, still on she goes.

She looks around, slowly doing a full three sixty before taking a descending step, no matter if this does nothing to make her any more aware of anything in particular. This hallway she is in, the far side of the double doors she came from, the right turn if she had of taken it, is slightly longer than the distance she has moved over towards the steps. Before she has an opportunity to move down these steps, she can hear something, footsteps, footsteps coming from beyond this hallway, on its other side, a sound of footsteps from the hallway beyond this one.

So now, even if she hadn't already decided to head down to a lower level she may just have to, especially if she wants to avoid whatever it is that could be creating those footsteps she hears. She hasn't seen anything, or anyone arrive yet, so down she goes. Would it not be a good thing to make contact with others if there are others here? Who knows? For now, she would rather avoid contact until she can possibly know better ...

As quickly and as quietly as she can she moves down these steps. One flight of stairs, not many more than possibly twenty steps, is descended and then through a very short hallway that brings her into a darkened place. There are a few wall mounted LED lights spread out down here making it clear that this place, that this room is enormous.