There's no point in getting upset over the situation. Lucca betrayed you and got what was coming to her. There's no more precise an exchange than in Kindred politics. The scales are even.
Regardless of how you feel, it's time to move on down the collapsed hallway. There's nothing left for you here and nowhere else to go. Whoever finds Lucca's remains here will have no way of tracing the crime to you, so you should feel perfectly calm about the whole thing. But you don't. Maybe it's just the knowledge that there are mortals with guns and explosives waiting not far from you. Maybe it's not what happened to Lucca that's caused your senses to heighten and your brain to work on overdrive. Yes. It must be the mortals.
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Left with nowhere else to turn, you press yourself up against the wall and fall into a crouch, pushing past the debris as you make your way through the narrow tunnel in the collapsed hallway. Seconds pass by like minutes as the claustrophobia-inducing walls seem to push in on you, and you can't help but think about how even the smallest shift in the rubble's position could instantly crush you into a fine red smear.
You notice a small window in the rubble framed by two pieces of broken timber. It takes some doing to wriggle yourself over to it, but when you do, you're greeted with an unexpected sight.
She's here! She must have survived the fall. Corliss is locked in hand-to-hand combat with an incredibly furious Robert Ward.
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