TWENTY-EIGHT
THERE WERE MANY MORE people here than earlier. On the opposite side of the lobby from where I exited, another emergency door opened into the lobby. More people came out from that side than over here—probably another hotel area closer to the ground floors, or another building attached to the same system. Or maybe another function of some kind being hosted over there.
I scanned my eyes over the maybe eighty or so people making their way out and towards the front area. The area where we had gone to access the elevators to the top floors were opposite me, the same guards still standing by their security equipment, having conversations on two-way radios, scanning the crowd as well. But other emergency personnel now started making their way through this entrance, going towards the
