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The child fidgeted with the swipe card in her hands. Spinning it around with her fingers nervously as she looked back at the door. She hesitated for another moment, then sheepishly spoke up. "I...I'll...I'll only make things worse if I try to open the door and get the code wrong." she admitted. "If I get it wrong it's set to freeze up. Then no one will be getting in or out unless you manually unlock it from the main security room..."

The little girl looked nervously from the door to the security camera. She tried to think of a way, but there really wasn't any way for them to get out while the building was on lock down. She didn't have the code to get through, her powers had very little offensive capabilities to deal with the door or the man... there... really wasn't anything more she could do.

Oddly enough though... barely a minute after the Count had carved the message on the door and pointed to it, there was a startling "thunk" of something large and metallic hitting the floor. The little girl jumped slightly and turned to look at the door, her eyes wide. The lights were still saying that the building was on lock down, but... that sounded like the door... unlocking.

Her suspicions were confirmed when the door clacked, then slid to the side on it's own. Leaving nothing but open sewer on the other side of the door.

Someone in the security room had done the Count a favor. With as much trouble as he had caused, it shouldn't be anyone actually inside the building. The only people who would have helped him should have left the building quite a while ago. It was a fair assumption that at least one of them didn't do as they were told.

The child watched him leave, then began flipping the card in her hands nervously again. This was bad... she was going to get in trouble for this. Not... too much trouble hopefully... it wasn't like SHE opened the door for him or anything. But... she still led him to this place. They'd be angry. Very angry. And since he just got away, she'd be the only one to be angry at.

She... she should leave too. But, then they really would be angry at her. But if she stayed.... Nnnnh....

The child didn't have long to debate on what to do. The door clicked again, and began sliding back into place. Just... as the escape hatch sounded as though it had been ripped off of it's hinges. Claws scraped against the floor and growling echoed through the closed off hallway.

Fight or flight kicked in, and the child darted for the doorway before it closed on her.

There was a long silent pause behind the door as the Count stared at it. It was an eerie sort of silence. There was no screaming, no hissing, no clawing. Just silence. It lasted a long minute or two before it was broken with a shrill shriek. Then quite a few hands began scraping and clawing at the metal door. Angry, determined swipes that dug hard at the door.

The door was holding strong, but it was hard to say how long or how quickly it would take those monsters to claw a hole through the door.e door. There was no sign of trouble

It wasn't very long before the door was ripped through. Claws finally found their way through the door, and weakened the door in just the right places for it to be ripped from the wall. A dozen of the symbiote creatures were waiting on the other side of the door. Finding no one in the serer, they all burst from the room and raced down the tunnels, determined to find the escaped intruder. Leaving an empty hallway behind.