"I'll be done and we'll be out before it can reach us, almost there—"

The girl looks out the window. "Defined Tower, yep. This whole place is in the Sideways! It just looks like it isn't."

"...so it is."

(The Picasso flickers and skips one floor. Fifth floor, now.)

She bolts for the elevators, hits both the down button and the up one, gets into the one that opens for her. Fifteenth floor c'mon c'mon c'mon...

"We should go, Penny."

"I'm almost done mapping here, and there could be entrances to the Sideways..."

(The Picasso reaches the seventh floor.)

(Denice reaches the fifteenth.)

Go go go that guy has weapons but he's not holding them right it's not going to be a disaster if she startles him whoops too late now here's the room and here's the door, she crashes through and bounces off the partition on the other side and gasps for breath...

If she didn't have her power she would've missed it. It takes less than half a second for the guy to be pointing a weapon at her, and the remaining half of that second to position himself between her and the girl he called Penny.

("Marcy!")

("Almost done!")

(Eighth floor.)

"'casso," she gasps, "stairs, coming." Standing is slightly beyond her at the moment - too disoriented for that kind of coordination - but she tries anyway.

"—Penny, we're leaving right now."

"But dad!"

"No buts, you know the drill, we do not stick around to explore when there's a Picasso loose."

She pouts but sighs and nods. "Fffiiiine." She looks at Denice. "Are you alright? How did you escape the Picasso?"

"Penny we don't have time for that!"

"Super... hearing." This time she makes it to her feet. "Hear him."

"What, seriously? That's awesome!"

"Are there other stairs?" he asks Denice.

(Tenth floor.)

("And I'm done!")

("Great, now let's go, yeah?")

"Elevator." She leads the way.

They follow her, but—" This is the Sideways. The elevator could take us to who knows where."

("Yeah, yeah, whatever. ...the Picasso was going up the stairs, wasn't it?")

("...yeah?")