After I walked around the Library to see if it was actually feasible to stay I got to looking at all the exits and realized it would be a nightmare to secure.There are a lot of fire exits in a building that size and you never really pay attention to how many there are till you start looking for them.
I had to ask myself then, how can these things be used? Naturally an escape rout but also as a point of drama. Think about it, your locking yourself in a big building with dead things that want to eat you and they are on the other side of the exit you may need to save your life. How do you deal with that one? I went back and forth on a doze different scenarios actually playing with exit doors at work and other places till I came up with something that worked. Then I used playing with all those scenarios in the story.
A lot of Library's are trying to find ways to stay relevant competing with big book stores and coffee shops where people will sit for hours and read. Now modern libraries offer movie rentals, game rentals, local artist exhibitions, book signings and music concerts along with study rooms, passport photos, workshops for different things and the list goes on and on. They are very active places with lots of activities geared for children. If you have kids it's a great place for no t low money fun.
As it happens our main library, the one in the story, has a coffee shop with healthy snack foods like granola bars and pastries for sell on the upper floor. What a better place to hold up for a while? And I was again thinking that few people would actually think to raid a library for food. It would have untouched stores of food. enough to last a few days at least. I know I would want to stay for a while so I let our hero's do just that.
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