Pree nearly dropped the towels. "The library...?" His mind caught up quicker than his mouth. "Oh, sweetheart. Yes. Yes, we'll help them. Come here, let's get you out of the hall." He steered Dieter toward the ballroom, which wasn't as easy as it seemed with Dieter unable to see where he was going and trembling when voices rose and fell around them.
Pree kept up as light and breezy a running commentary as he could muster: "Everyone's freaking out just a little. You said a door in the library? You didn't happen to see any, well, any rats, before the light?" Before he was blinded. Trees. "Rather large ones. Very unfriendly. There's been a few sightings in parts of the hotel."