I crept through the darkness --
--a harsh yellow light shone upon a brick wall and I saw his feet run up a steel staircase --
-- a fire exit door swung shut --
-- I tore up the stairs like a lithe cat after some cod that's been lightly dunked in cream --
--suddenly--
--I tore open the door and ran in, intending to lunge upon whatever was there with extreme brute force...and then put a donk on it--
--then--
--a gun shot from within--
--was I too late to catch him?
