You decide the best thing to do is to leave well enough alone. Maybe if you make a smooth enough escape, it'll even give you the knowledge to back your way back in easier next time; if you even want there to be a next time.
Looking around for the that window that you had attempted to lower yourself through, you are surprised not to see any light. This shouldn't surprise you as you needed the lighter to see in the first place, but it does. Even the partial moon on a clear sky should've produced some light.
Not wanting to light up the basement for fear of seeing the dog again, you decide to feel around for the window. You find all sorts of normal basement thing: shelves, old tools, even old machinery too rusted to tell what it was supposed to do. However, it takes coming across the stairs twice before you realize with dread that you fell upon entering the window. This suggests that the window is out of your reach. You could of course use a shelf or something to climb on, but you would have to see enough to know where to put it...
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