Calypso had jumped into an empty trash can when she heard IT roar. She knew it really wasn't the best place to be but it was the closest shelter at the moment. When she heard the thing demolishing a building down the street she peeked out and then jumped out and ran to the nearest house praying it had some place she could hide. She did make sure not to slam the door in her haste though. She leaned against it for a moment, panting with her heart pounding in her ears. Then she hurried through the house, searching for a basement. The woman breathed a sigh of relief when she found one and relaxed somewhat.<br/><br/>Cali pulled out her pistol and opened the door then, keeping her finger off the trigger, crept down the stairs. She wasn't sure if anyone was there but if they were she wanted to be prepared. She had already run into one guy who had gone crazy from the stress of the situation. He'd tried to kill her so she wasn't going to take a chance again. If they were there she was sure they would have heard her walking around upstairs so they would already know she was there. She called out softly, "Hello? Anyone here?"<br/><br/>She was a biologist who had worked with all kinds of dangerous predators and loved it. These... things were a whole different ballgame though. They terrified her. Twice now she had been in a building that had been destroyed. The first time was her parents home. She had just returned from a long trip studying Ocelots in south Texas and after months of sleeping in a tent she had been loving being able to sleep in a soft bed. Then the house was suddenly being torn apart. She'd been buried under rubble that it took her a couple days to dig out of. The second time was just a couple days ago. She still didn't know why IT had decided to attack the house she was in but it had. Cali had walked away from that with a bad slash on her upper left arm. It was deep and she'd had to stitch it together herself. It wasn't the best job but it was functional. She just counted herself lucky that in one of the houses she had scrounged through before she had found some antibiotics and pain killers.