Going Up

We manage to outrun them and hide in his apartment. Paolo locks all the doors and I shut all the curtains. I peek outside. I see the men with guns split up -- some take the stairs and some the elevator. I am surprisingly not afraid. I know what to do.

I tell him, "They're on their way up. They've covered the stairs and the elevator. We must go up!"

But to my horror I see that someone has shot him with a tranquilizer gun. "Wake up!" I yell at him. "Move! Walk! I will never forgive you if we don't make it!"

Another needle comes flying past us and gets Forest. So I carry Forest and continue to yell instructions and threats at Paolo who moves like his bones are made of jello.

Up the stairs we go and into the building's penthouse where we see Ms Abiog.

"I've been waiting for you," she says, smiling.

"Oh dear," I think silently to myself, a sleeping dog in my arms and a sleeping husband at my feet.