It did feel safer inside the center where it was warm and bright, but they couldn't just stay there and hope the monster walked away. To get away from it they had to walk out to it first.
As they made their way out into the late evening darkness, they ended up almost face to face with the monster and Miguel felt how he went cold and pale. Whatever the thing was it was huge and more importantly, it was terrifying.

"Let's go this way now, quickly", Miguel said, his voice hushed out of fear and in case any louder noises would make the monster attack. He impatiently tugged at Tulio's shirt sleeve again, motioning them to hurry and get the hell away from the thing.