On December 26th, two days into being completely locked in, Autumn had a plan.
It wasn’t a full plan though. More like the beginning of one. But she'd been watching Gabriel long enough now to know that the beginning was enough to start with.
She needed to get into that hallway room. She didn't know exactly what was behind it. She had guesses, and the guesses were bad, but she needed to see it.
She needed to know what she was actually dealing with because right now she was building an escape plan with half the information missing, and she was sure that half the information was behind that door.
So she spent the morning being easy. She acted warm, relaxed, and curious about everything he said. She asked him about his research and then sat back and let him drone on and on, because gettin
