"No, I mean. I'm happy for the breathing and all. I am. And, I'm happy you're here. And--that's weird. Don't remember it being so close. Uh...here's where I'm staying," Wash said pointing up to the slender building barely fitted between its adjacent neighbors. Ivy had climbed its way up the majority of it though it was the tallest building on the block.
It looked unloved, full of darkened windows, rooms not lived in or people not in them.
"I'm at the top," he said and led them in.
The lobby was empty. Mail was be-speckled among the boxes behind a counter no one was manning.
Wash jammed a finger into the up arrow in the middle of the row of elevators and gave her a little smile.
"It's real fancy, I know," he joked, "What really attracted me was the creepifyin' way you don't see anyone come and go but ya hear 'em. Kinda homey. After you, sweetie," he said with a gesture as the elevator opened.