WENDY Don't hurt me!
JACK I'm not going to hurt you.
WENDY Stay away from me! Stay away! Please!

The staircase scene imitates another central Mesoamerican ritual, the STAIRWAY SACRIFICE of a captive. These rituals, the early ballgames leading to this stairway and finally to bloodletting (Wendy eventually SLICES JACK'S HAND) is ritually prepping him for Danny's confusing maze lure at the end of the movie. In that sense, Wendy can be seen here to be drawing the minotaur out from the center of the maze - she is drawing Jack out of the Colarado Lounge where he has been writing. As she draws Jack out of the unlit areas below towards the fireplace on the well lit second floor she is crowned by a glowing lamp.