Calypso made her way down the stairs slowly. She didn't hear anything so she decided to chance her flashlight. Once she turned it on though she heard something scurrying about. She stepped down off the last step and almost screamed as a huge rat darted past her. She managed to bite her tongue though and keep herself from making a noise. Cursing herself for being so jumpy she made a sweep of the room to make sure nothing else was going to jump out at her. Finding it to be free of any other creepy critters she set her pack on a table and dug through it to find her candles. There was only one small filthy window that hardly let in any light and she needed to see to eat and check her wound.<br/><br/>Pulling out a long taper candle she set it in a holder she carried and lit it then turned her flashlight off. She tried to conserve her batteries and candles as much as possible. She took out a bottle of water and some fresh bandages. More things she tried to conserve but she knew she had to change the dressings and clean her wound. She carefully took her jacket off then unwrapped her wound. It still sickened her to look at it. She was going to have such a nasty scar. Cali just hoped that was all she was going to suffer. She tried not to use it as much as possible for fear of tearing it open so she really wasn't sure if her arm was still fully functioning.<br/><br/>After cleaning it and dressing it she took some antibiotics and pain killers. She cracked open a can of beans and sat on the table to eat it. Calypso was truly coming to hate beans but they were better than nothing. Once her meal was through she took her candle and went around the room to see what there might be there. She was glad to find spare blankets. At least she could sleep a little more comfortably this day. She pulled them all down and made a bed from them and fell asleep. Her dreams were still haunted by that crazy man she had been forced to kill and of course IT.<br/><br/>Calypso woke with a start from a dream that involved that creature. She looked at her watch, 4 o'clock. Her watch was one of those things she was thankful for. It didn't run on batteries but solar power. Her dreams had made her jumpy and she felt like she had to move. The woman quickly got her bag together and put her jacket on. She cautiously went upstairs and went through everything. Some lucky finds included some more bandages and some Ramen noodle packages. She might not have the means to boil them up but she'd always liked just eating the noodles dry anyway.<br/><br/>At the door she crouched down and stayed very still, listening and feeling for any sign of IT. The ground didn't tremble and she didn't hear any roars so it must not be near. She slowly opened the door then crept out. She saw an old factory at the end of the street and decided that would be a good place to go. Calypso made her way down the street. She was hiding in the shadows of a house looking out across the field that separated her from the factory when to her amazement she saw a man running across it. Then she heard IT. The man obviously did as well as she saw him change direction to a house.<br/><br/>Cali ducked into the house and hid behind a couch which hid her from all the windows. She heard the crashing of IT tearing a house apart. She assumed it was the one the man had run to. She hoped the man had gotten to a basement or something. The woman laid there for some time even after she was sure IT was gone then she dared to get up. She slowly crept out of the house, ready to bolt back inside if need be. She lightly pressed her fingers to the ground to see if she felt any vibrations but there weren't any. Calypso looked out over the field to the house that was now just a pile of rubble. Had the man survived somehow? If he had made it to a basement with all that rubble he would be trapped there. He would need help. What if he was crazy like the last one though? He had looked rather muscular from what she had seen. But then again what if he wasn't crazy?<br/><br/>Well, crazy or not she couldn't just leave someone to die like that. She waited a bit longer then she took a deep breath and she bolted for the wreckage of the house. She was actually a very fast runner. It was never a good idea to run from a predator but if there ever came a time that you had to you wanted to be fast so she had made sure she could. She ducked behind the wreckage, panting and glancing around for any sign of the beast. There still wasn't any. They sure were active today though. She searched the wreckage and moved things around as much as she could, looking for a window to the basement. With a grunt she moved a piece of wall and uncovered a piece of a basement window. She smiled, then there was a little hope that he'd survived. She squeezed between some beams to reach it and knelt down to tap at it lightly. She called as loudly as she dared, "Hello? Did you make it? I saw you running here..."