Unexpectedly, Roland's first reaction was to yell:
"Run!"
He bolted out of there so quickly. Harker and Artea had to follow after him. The cop also got out and chased after the three, but they went to the denser part of the streets with a lot of the bar hoppers starting to file in for the night.
They managed to lose him by merging with the crowd. Roland went straight inside the Circus Cabaret, and closed the door behind him as Harker and Artea got in too.
The patrons didn't seem to pay attention to them. They were all stuck in their own activities, like carefully placed pieces of a diorama. Harker doesn't know why, but this felt very much like a bar…..
And that unsettled him for some reason.
It was so much like a bar, like one would expect from a bar. They people laughed as they drank, and they sounded more like a laugh than any laughter he heard. Their movements looked more like a party than any party he had been to.
