There is one other way out of here. I’ve used it once or twice, but it’s been a long time. I head down to the basement. This building and the one next to it share the laundry facilities down here. Both buildings belong to the same person, and the basements are connected as one large space. I walk through the laundry room and climb the stairs into the building next door. The apartments in it are mostly empty, so I’m not surprised when I don’t run into anybody. It takes me a couple minutes to find the back entrance of this other building. But when I do find it and peer through the window there, there’s nobody outside guarding it. Unfortunately, the door is padlocked.
I don’t bother picking the lock; I simply break it with a nearby brick and set it aside. But when I start to open the door, i
