[That would not make her feel any better! He's told her often enough that he's indestructible - when she worries, when she threatens him, when it comes up organically in other conversation - but that only means he can survive his scars, that he has to. She's terrified of a future where it comes down to the latter, wouldn't risk him like this if she could think of anything else.
He's moving around in the dark. He's somewhere by the ground, and at first she thinks he's trying to look under the crack beneath the door, but then she figures out that he's listening, divining.
When he gets back up, she takes his hand again.] Emergency stairs are around the side. [He knows. He always notices these things.] If they're still down there, I'll get out of your way.
[There's enough ambient light - bless light pollution and occasional glowing exit sign whose emergency mode had initiated after the pulse - to get to said stairs and down them, but the basement should be pitch black.]
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He's moving around in the dark. He's somewhere by the ground, and at first she thinks he's trying to look under the crack beneath the door, but then she figures out that he's listening, divining.
When he gets back up, she takes his hand again.] Emergency stairs are around the side. [He knows. He always notices these things.] If they're still down there, I'll get out of your way.
[There's enough ambient light - bless light pollution and occasional glowing exit sign whose emergency mode had initiated after the pulse - to get to said stairs and down them, but the basement should be pitch black.]