North Gate, Saturday noonish

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah was checking the barrier, checking the perimeter, and nervously eyeing the Preserve.


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[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Calm down," Triela recommended. "If you're too anxious then your decision making skills suffer." Sometimes it helped to be pumped full of conditioning drugs.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah took a breath. Took another one. Yeah, still not calm. "I hate waiting so much." She sighed, and checked one of the makeshift flamethrowers they'd picked up. "Do you think they can climb that wall separating us from the Preserve?"

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"I really don't know. K-Mart would be the person to ask, but she said that they could climb, if poorly."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah bit her lip, pacing back and forth. "There should be a way to keep an eye out for them, then. On the places where we don't have people waiting." She paused. "Maybe the security cameras will catch them, though?"

[withoutverona]

Romeo had finally stopped crying enough to realize something: Reno and Yurika would both kick his ass from wherever the souls of the undead went, if he stayed inside and made no effort to help. A couple of fortifying shots of whiskey later, and he was ready to head outside.

It looked like more than enough people were guarding the main gate, so he walked toward the north gate, armed with a handgun, and nodded a solemn greeting to Dinah. "Are they trying to get in?"

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," Triela shrugged. "Though it might be a good idea to run a few patrols. Just in case."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Not so far," she said, nodding back. "There's a few wandering around down the road, but they don't seem to have realized this is a way in yet." She bit her lip, wanting to say something about Reno and Dojima, but not knowing how, exactly. "Are you sure you want to be here?" Because she would've been curled up in a ball, or going berserk if she were him.

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Can't leave this too open, though." Dinah frowned. "Tahiri was running some yesterday, maybe meet up with her or someone, do a sweep on the hour?" She rolled her eyes. "They move slow enough they wouldn't get far."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Good idea." Triela nodded in approval. "And get a rapid response team that's well-armed in a central location. We can call them in via cell phone if we spot a big group that needs to be taken down."

[withoutverona]

"No," he said honestly. "But I don't want to be anywhere, save with a few people I can't be with. At least if I'm here I might be of some use to someone."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Definitely," Dinah said instantly. "We really need people here. Thank you so much for this," which should have been the first thing she said, but hey. "We have extra flamethrowers. But I'm really hoping they won't get that close. And ordinance." Then, a little more quietly, "Sorry."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Central location, central location," Dinah suddenly looked dismayed. "A map! I should've brought a map!"

[withoutverona]

"It seems to be what happens to me," Romeo said, and he sounded much older than eighteen. "People die. I stay."

And his heart shattered a little more.

He glanced at the flamethrowers. "Tell me how those work."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"I can sketch a brief one here. If you've got a good head for spaces."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah felt so bad for him, and had no idea what to say to that. "Maybe we can change it?" Which she didn't really believe, even with Merlin's faith. "We don't know yet. Not for sure." And that might be what's keeping her from falling apart yet.

At his question about the squirt guns, Dinah nodded. "They're modified squirt-guns. Well, squirt-machine-guns?" she said, picking one of the big ones up. "They've got lighter fluid in them. Pump action, so it doesn't let the flame go back in the gun. You light the candle stuck on the wire on the front here, then pump it." She showed him without lighting the candle. "It sends out a stream of the fluid and some gas, but you have to be careful it doesn't get knocked around, and you don't get it on you. Well, obviously. They're pretty jury-rigged, but there's a lot of them."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Not much... OOo. Thought. Plan." Dinah pulled out her phone. "Tony's got his laptop with him. He can send a copy to my phone?"

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"That could work," Triela agreed. She paused to think about the lay of the land in her head. "See if he'll do that."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

After chatting with Tony, Dinah said, "He's going to send it, and he's going on top of the school as look-out. Maybe talk to the Library crew on the way, or call them and see how the research is going." Dinah put her phone away, thinking. "Are we missing anything?"

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Just more people," Triela suggested. "I can't be everywhere at once, myself. And we need to decide who's patrolling and who's going to be our backup force."

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"True. Maybe Arthur or the guys at the other gate will send someone here," Dinah said, fidgeting. "I don't feel like we have enough people here to go on a patrol from here yet."

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"Yeah." Triela was sure she could patrol on her own just fine, but that would mean leaving Dinah here without backup. And that wasn't going to work.

"Who else do you think we need?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah stopped, thinking. "Some of the girls from Gun Club? Any of them that aren't zombies," she added, thinking of Dojima. "And, um." She frowned. "Who's in Fight Club that's not already here or at the other Gate?"

[sorella-vecchia.livejournal.com]

"I don't know who's in Fight Club," Triela shrugged. "But some of the Gun Club people is probably a good idea."

[withoutverona]

Shrugging at her first words, Romeo picked up a gun and inspected it reverently, seeing it seemed to work as Dinah described. "It's something, anyhow," he allowed. "And not hard to use. Has it been tested on the zombies yet?"

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"I don't think so. The Radio said Mr. Skywalker had people making them last night," Dinah answered. "I guess we could run a test on some of the brush here, put it on the concrete, to make sure they all work like they're supposed to."