Terror gripped Tsubaki and her legs fell out from under her, her heart trying to escape her chest and run away on its own. She was going to die, and this thing was going to kill her. That was fact.

It was a fact her mind KNEW, but her body couldn't accept. Almost acting without thought, Tsubaki pushed away from the wall, sliding under the flimsy partition into the next stall, then the next after that. She scrambled to her feet and threw herself at the stall door, almost falling over again as it burst outward. Without looking back, she ran out of the bathroom, calling for help as loud as she could. Only one thought played itself again and again in her mind.

[I]I need to run away, don't stop running.[/i]