Once they saw her garb, they cried for help. "Please come out of the room and go up the stairs. Don't stay here." She led them out carefully and put the girl down right outside the fire exit.
"Run up. Immediately. Stand on the roof if you can. Do not come out if anyone with a gun comes toward you and make yourself invisible. Do you understand?" she barked.
The girl cried but nodded. She waddled up the stairs and Anna returned.
She could hear commotion from the lower floors, but she knew how to prioritize. She found every cleaning trolly and piece of furniture she could from the hallways and stacked them in front of the stairs, making the barricade so hard to cross that the assailants would be frustrated.
She went and did the same thing on the other exits as well. But she was left with the magnificent responsibility of holding the fort until the other team could come inside and rescue the rest of the people.
