"Okay, how about this. People who want to leave now, they can go do that. People who want to stick around for a day, can also go do that."

"If you stick around for another day you are more likely to get arrested! For murder!!"

"If the body is found we're also more likely to get arrested!"

They're all going to leave him, aren't they! "If I close my eyes maybe I can tolerate it?"

"Great!"

"I need a seeing eye guide. So to speak."

"We can do that." He claps Oscar on the shoulder warmly. "Jing Yi. My dear friend. I am afraid you're going to get eaten by Satan's own pterodactyl. Nothing you've said has convinced me you have a plan for this. I fear for you."

Sal is headed downstairs with his things. The station is right there. If anyone wants to catch up they will catch up.

"That's a possibility, I know." Maybe this is what those dreams were predicting. "If that happens-- do right by Evie?"

"I wouldn't hang her out to dry, but Jing Yi, I have no idea how to save your fiancée from a wizard."

Oscar flinches-- looking truly terrified for a second-- but catches himself. "...Thank you. Sorry for being strange."

Surely Terrence of all people won't judge him for that. Given, you know.

"I bet if I asked Emma nicely to have an inoffensive houseguest for a while she'd say yes." Getting Inaaya's stuff together takes about twenty seconds--

There's a piercing whistle blast.

--she flinches.

"I couldn't ask for mo-- fuck."

It had better fucking be a train whistle!!!

Going out into the corridor to investigate is a bad plan, but not knowing what's going on is probably a worse one!

Then a tremendous noise, like a wall breaking.

It's like the sky itself is attacking them.

Terrence grabs Oscar's shoulder - protectively? Instinctively? - at first, but lets it go once he has a second to orient himself, doesn't want to scare the poor boy more than he already has. Also, what the fuck.

No, no, this is not allowed. There has been enough dangerous supernatural bullshit for one day. Has anything in the corridor obviously broken?

Nothing in the corridor is obviously broken.

"At least the building isn't collapsing!" he says, tempting fate.

Terrence tears aside the curtain and looks out the window.

Just as Sal startles and turns around, terrified that the thing breaking is the building he just walked out of.