>>5465603 >>5465681Right, now would be a good time to figure out what your escape route looks like. Thankful for the carpeted floor, you creep over to the window and begin fiddling with your key ring as quietly as possible. Unlike the door keys, the window ones all look pretty similar. One design for the first lock, a different for the second, all identical between the windows. It takes a total of eight tries with different keys for you to unlock both of the window's locks, the sounds of sobbing and the creature loudly lumbering around downstairs providing a nerve-wracking backdrop.
With the window unlocked, you slowly push it up and open. Cold, moist air finds its way in and you involuntarily shiver. It's the middle of August, but it seems like you could do with a sweatshirt. Putting the cold aside, you poke your head out the window. The sill outside the window is rather narrow, but you could probably fit your feet on it if you had to. From there you think you could reach the roof, although it'd definitely take a lot out of you to climb up there, and wouldn't be perfectly quiet.
To the left and the right are the windows to your uncle's office and bedroom, respectively. The office window is too far to reach from where you are, but you think you might be able to step over to the other bedroom's windowsill, albeit it with some difficulty. It should still be locked from the inside though, so you'd probably have to smash your way in. Even ignoring what might be inside the room, it doesn't sound like a great escape route.
Below is an overgrown hedge, which you imagine would both cushion your fall and scratch you up. Speaking of the fall the distance is a bit dicey, but not the end of the world. If you were prepared ahead of time you don't think it'd kill you or anything, at least. Although you guess you might sprain and ankle, which, well... might be the same as a death sentence in your current situation. It would all depend on your luck, you guess.
With that in mind, you close the window, turn your attention back to the room, and think of how you could get down safely. It doesn't take long for you to think of the most cliched approach in the book: make a rope out of your bedsheets. Sure, you don't know if it actually works but... well, you've seen it in movies before, and it makes sense, logically. If you tied up your sheets, your blanket, and maybe some clothes or the curtains into a rope, and then fix it against something in the room, then it would probably provide a much safer path down.
