Aiden Shepard [ Abraham Van Helsing ] (arcere) wrote in bellumlogs,
"Not scared," Aiden hissed as he followed her up the stairs, taking the other side and clinging to that banister instead. "At least I've only got four flights to go." As his drunken mind recalled, she lived further up. Not hugely further up, but further up enough to cause problems for her, and probably him if she slipped and fell and took him down with her before he got a chance to get onto his floor safely.
They managed to make it up to the second floor before he had to curl up by the stairs to focus on getting under control. Something was moving badly in his stomach, and he didn't want to find out what it was until he got into a bathroom.