Thank you for the reviews so far, you've all been more than kind! sorry it's taken so long and sorry it's so short but here is some more nonsense for you all-I do hope you enjoy it!
Falling. No not falling, she wasn't moving fast enough to be falling. Floating. That's what it was, she felt like she was floating down to the ground and it was the strangest sensation. She felt herself reach the ground and wondered where she was. She looked like she was outside Thames House, but something about the place didn't feel right. The traffic passed as normal and the people went about rushing past, minding their own business-refusing to make eye contact with anyone else- just as they always did. It was the rain falling heavily to the ground that convinced her she was just being silly. Feelings never got her anywhere; she needed evidence and information before she made a judgement. So hesitantly she stepped forward into the thick masses of people running around the building in an attempt to make it to the door. Wait? Running around the building?! That was new. There was something else too-it was the same people running, they were literally running around the building in circles over and over again getting drenched by the rain, and she was getting swept along by the tide of suits too she realised as she moved further away from the direction in which she should have been heading. She started shouting at the people, stumbling and falling as she tried to move against the tide but it was no use, she was just pushed by the others to move in the conventional direction. The rain was falling heavier too, the puddles now moving up to her ankles in depth. That's when she started panicking; she needed to get out of this rat run, now. She fell once again, this time clawing her way up the wall and clinging on for dear life as she used it to anchor herself. She was coming back around to the steps; she would jump on them and try to make some sense of what was going on. As she approached she saw Bill, the security man-she was sure he wasn't there before! "Bill! Bill!" she shouted as she flung herself out of the crowd desperately and onto the steps. He moved towards her, pulling her upright. "Oh Bill, thank you! What on Earth is going on?"
"Why Miss Evershed, it's raining of course! And you are soaked right to the skin!"
"What has the rain got to do-"
"I say! You'll never get dry that way!"
"Get dry? Bill, what-"
Pointing at the people doing laps in front of them, he interrupted her again; "You have to run with the others if you want to get dry! Look I'm as dry as a bone already!"
Confused, Ruth lent in close to Bill and raised her voice "What has happened to the world?! This is madness- and no one can ever get dry that way!" but he had stopped listening, and was now shouting encouragements to the people below. Frustrated, Ruth threw up her hands and pushed open the door, closing her eyes and breathing a sigh of relief as she entered the building, but her eyes flew open as she felt something brush against her leg.
Told you it was short, but the next chapter will hopefully make up for it length wise :)