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The shade ran through the mall enraged and berserk killing anything that got in its way. It knew its masters would not approve its handling of this but it did not care. All it wanted is to escape to the darkness where it is more powerful and could survive in secret. It burst through a door that said maintenance running down the long hall before it to another door at the end. Jerking the door open, it found itself in a semi dark room filled with climate control equipment with pipes running across the ceiling. It luxuriated in the shadows it found blending completely into them. Walking around the equipment it frantically searched for another exit. It needed to go below the city in the sewers away from those confounded surveillance systems.
Suddenly, it saw what it needed there on the floor in front of it is a steel grate that it hoped would lead to the sewers. Lifting the grate, it climbed down the ladder lowering the grate behind it. The creature found itself in near complete darkness relishing the power it received. The all-encompassing darkness calmed its rage allowing it to think about what to do next. Wounded from the guns the detectives used on it, the shade needed to find a place of safety and heal its wounds.