Just Outside the Main Gate, Friday Morning

[bitchprince]

He'd been assessing people resources for most of the previous day. Since there had yet to be word from Lady Zoe, Arthur took the opportunity today to scope out how much space there would be for a barricade - if one could even be feasible.

This brought him to the area just outside the gates, wearing full armor and backed by Merlin-the-idiot-sorcerer, his eyes shooting towards the road in front of them from time to time.

[[ open, especially to merlin, and zombie-ok as well! ]]

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[withoutverona]

Drama, sadly, was Romeo's thing in moments like this; Arthur was only lucky he hadn't gotten around to more suicidal threats yet.

"The beach," Romeo said, managing a straight answer for once. "Reno and Yurika were both taken and turned. I saw them, and I think they wanted --" he couldn't finish the sentence. "Some blond woman with a gun bundled me back to campus."

[bitchprince]

"Reno's been taken?" That was... bad news. Arthur tried not to let it show on his face, but some of it may have slipped through unnoticed. "Right. You should get to the indoors, Romeo," he added, with his best placating tone. The last thing they needed was another loose cannon throwing himself into the fray. "Find some calm."

[withoutverona]

"An unquiet mind rarely leaves me in the calm," Romeo said, but the tone of command helped a little, at least. He steadied himself and walked through the gate, then turned.

"Don't kill them, if they follow me this way," he blurted. "I cannot let them be taken further away. At least while they walk there's some tiny hope to see them restored."

[bitchprince]

"I'll make my best effort to keep Reno and your Dojima safe," Arthur promised him, "You've got my word, Romeo. Now get some rest."

[withoutverona]

Romeo let out a ragged breath, trusting in the secured promise. The two people dearest to him in Fandom would have life of some sort, at least, if one that filled him with horror.

"I shall. And I'll be out again soon. I can't sit by for long while the ghouls walk."

Right then, he needed to rest, and to cry.