James, wholly unfamiliar with the home he was in and going purely off of adrenaline and fear, thought very little about where exactly he was going to head first. Even if in the back of his mind he knew well that it likely would have served him better to take a breath and think out his escape route.
However, as James was currently being familiarized with, when one is nude in a stranger’s flat and under a curse which renders them transformed into an inanimate object when in a person’s line of sight, it’s made tremendously difficult to keep a level head.
James’ first instinct was to run, which he did. He didn’t head to the door, no. That obvious entryway carried too high of a risk of him running into other people. He ran for the hallway to his left, hoping to find a window or something he could climb out of. He wasn’t sure which floor he was on, or if he was at ground level. Maybe there was a fire escape? Possibly. But the only way he could find out at this point was to check.
Going down the hallway, James saw a few different tdoors on both sides, but no windows. Taking his chances, he ducked into the nearest one, only to find himself in a small bathroom where there was a medicine cabinet, a toilet, a bathtub and shower, and a skylight. James, too panicked to think clearly, chose to try and exit out through the skylight as he figured this one definite chance of exit was better than wasting time searching the flat for other ones. Again, in his situation and present mindset, it was difficult to make sound choices.
As James struggled to find a way through the skylight that didn’t involve broken glass, Charlotte returned and began to put her groceries away, starting with the perishables. After putting away everything else, Charlotte realized that the yogurt she knew she had purchased was no longer there. Confused, she began to look around for it, only to be interrupted by noises coming from her bathroom. “Hello?”, she called.
James, alerted to the woman’s presence, didn’t respond. He simply stopped and remained as silent and still as possible, desperate not to draw any more attention to himself. Charlotte, however, was already on her way to the bathroom, certain she had heard something. Before James could do anything else, he was within Charlotte’s eyesight, and he was turned into.....