>>6044936Without hesitation, you rush down through the scalding steam and waterlogged corridor, turning right and sprinting as fast as you can down the hallway. There is a lot of water, rising quickly until it is almost knee deep in this flooded tenement corridor... soon your running and sploshing becomes impeded by the fetid cascades flooding down from the burst pipes of the walls and ceiling.
As you struggle to wade past the rising tide, you pass the utility room where Ibrahim and his companion had been hiding earlier - you notice that his incantation has stopped, and they are nowhere to be found. They must have also been forced out by the distraction of flooding damage you created - and surely their only avenue of escape must have been in the same direction you are heading? Doubtless Ibrahim's incantation was some form of ruqya, some charm or exorcism, holding a malevolent manifestation at bay?
