After eating, everyone was called together for an update.  Everyone gathered around to hear what the security guard had to say with hopeful faces that they would be let out.  The new grim, it wasn't long before they all began bickering.  Tyler shouted along side them even though what he was yelling didn't exactly make sense to Elizabeth; she didn't see how opening the gates to let them out would help anyone.  Not when there was a bigger threat on the first floor to deal with first.

Glaring in the security guard's direction as he spoke, it felt like he was undermining exactly what she'd been through down stairs in the lobby.  Bristling as she clinched her fist and took a step forward, it was the touch of Ava's hand gently touching her arm that kept her held back.  Gritting her teeth she remained quiet, but she didn't think the people up here could compare with what any of them had seen downstairs.  It just wasn't the same.  Those screams and the vivid images of all those people dying would forever haunt her nightmares for the rest of her days.

That didn't mean that she wasn't in support of saving a little girl.  In fact, it made her want to help even more.  No child should be stranded down there and had she known about it then she might have died trying to get to her yesterday.  Maybe it was because she was a mother herself, even if her son lived with his father, but she could feel her maternal instincts tugging at the thought of a child in danger.  

Everyone had fallen quiet as they looked around at each other.  No one was willing to risk it.  “Seriously?” she demanded, looking around the room at each of the faces in disbelief.  “There's a little girl down there and you all would rather let her die?”  It hadn't even been a day and these people were ready to start throwing one another to the wolves already.  

Taking another step forward out of Ava's reach, Elizabeth went to stand beside Dallen.  “I'll go,” she volunteered.  She wasn't going to be a coward.

“Wait,” Ava said quickly before turning to Tyler.

The two of them spoke to each other in hushed voices.  He looked upset about something and even mad.  Wondering what his problem was, she found out when he flatly stated, “We'll help, too.”  It was obvious that he didn't want to go, but she'd somehow talked him into it.  And since it didn't look like anyone else was stepping in, they needed all of the help they could get.