<div class="floatleft"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center">(https://www.mediafire.com/convkey/e0c5/igj1ddod0sjrx2jzg.jpg)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Fräulein J. Hagen</strong><br/>aka VaJayJay<br/>Victim<br/><em>About Fräulein J.</em> (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=289408.msg14241614#msg14241614)<br/>‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾</span></span></div></td><td>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/4d/AlTeregoSeparator.png)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>… no sound … my eyes detect light from my right and darkness from my left … light through a door to the right? … more of the building we’re in to the left? … reach carefully to my right … lift a foot and feel that direction … step … step … something solid meets my hand …<br/><br/>… slide my hand along back toward the stairs … yes, a door … down … deadbolt … turn that … it was unlocked … slide my hand down more … handle … press down … the door unlatches … crack the door … cool air … outside … wish I had the coat I was wearing in the taxi … but this I hope I can withstand in this skimpy dress …<br/><br/>… open the door … feel for the sill … there … step … feel and step … stop and pull the door mostly closed … try the handle from the outside … yes, unlocked … pull it closed … breath of cool air … feel for porch railing … nothing … light and distortion all around … feel … step … feel … ah, a step down … feel and step sideways … no railing … again … nope … step still ahead? … yes … toes on the edge … could be stepping into oblivion … tentative with no weight bend my back knee and lower my foot … ah, solid … step … again? … no, solid and smooth ahead … sidewalk or driveway … cement most likely … something ahead in the fuzz … feel and step … feel and step … feel … a car? … yes, a car … find a window and wrap on it with my knuckles? …</em></span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">  “Hello? Anyone there? Please help me! I can’t see!”</span></span><br/>