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We looked for the monsters for a long time and could not find them. Finally we figured out they had frozen themselves in blocks of ice to look like bricks, and they were supporting the building, forming the walls of the basement. I clawed into one brick and felt cold nails and sinew. They were waiting. We knew we had to get out of there fast. We climbed up up up the wall toward the ground. Get Martha you have to get her! She said she couldn't, she would have to let go to grab her, could not save them both. She kept going. I almost kept going but it was her soul, not just her body. I reached back down and grabbed the statue and somehow, somehow I got to the top, all of us safe as the building collapsed under the ground.