Two points:
A) The cabbage, ah the cabbage. Considering your post from earlier(/later) (the one on your account), I have to wonder why it always comes back to cabbage.
B) From the opening paragraphs "I crouched, ducking the smoke that was filling the room and stretched my free hand forward to feel for obstacles and moved off pulling them behind me." - Why were you ducking smoke, how were you ducking smoke, and why were you feeling for obstacles if you later stated "That was fine though, I had the office mapped out in my head."
C) (Because there had to be a c, I thought of it afterwards) If you felt you were fine because you had the office mapped out in your head, then why did you you state that your confidence was "borne of caffeine and too much sugar."
Sorry, I'm nitpicking. (well, not altogether too sorry, and on a side note, would you like some cabbage?)
Hahaha, good points!! But oh so readily explained!
A) everything comes back to cabbage, is like a universal constant or something.
B) admittedly there was a little dramatic effect here. If it was real smoke them we all know that it gets thicker the higher you are and if you are in a smoky room the air is easier to breathe lower down.
The feeling for obstacles is actually something I have found myself doing when playing games with my young daughter and we have to close our eyes and be robots. Don't ask, is awfully complex. I noticed that even if you know the layout of a place like the back of your hand you still have to stick a hand out because it can be ready to misjudge where things are. So you can head in a particular direction and also avoid the main obstacles but sometimes a door or a wall Congress quicker than you think!
C) when I do these or in fact about type of training courses I go mad on caffeine. I literally drink piles of it and become a hyper maniac. This my confidence was borne of that but also it was the first paragraph, it may have dented the telling a bit of I implied straight away that everything was ok. A sleight of hand if you will!
Thank you for reading it so very well!