Rachel is also proving capable, if very, very focused on what she's doing. She's tentative as they start down, but by the time Bruce speaks, lifting her head to look at him through the rungs of the ladder, half-smiling, isn't alarming.

"What, and miss this view? You were right, by the way--it's lovely from up here."

He's right, too, about the state of the partygoers in the hall. Between the four of them they couldn't even find their room key, and it took them how long to grasp that Rachel was telling them to go away, get another room, get out? It's likely they're still at the front desk, trying to explain what happened.

"Probably," she allows. "But better safe than sorry, right?"

Because a fire escape is so totally more safe than just walking out of the place.

...At least it's not the window to the courtyard.