The steps of the stairway are a dull muddy blue. The railing is silvery chrome. The second-floor landing is empty. Bandit pauses by the door on the landing to listen, then pulls the door inward, and steps into a hallway much like the one on the ground floor: lighting panels in the ceiling, gray and yellow tiles along the walls, muddy blue floor. Bandit pauses as a faint shimmering appears in the air before him. On the astral, he sees the small raccoon-like form of his watcher.