Luke’s glare at Autumn was icy when he offered to stay behind and he rolled his eyes slightly as he looked away. [i]Brilliant.[/i] He thought to himself as he realised he was now going with the scavenging party. He nodded to Sophia at her question. “I’ll catch up, just gotta get my gear.” He said as he knelt down to Ash, looking at her seriously before smiling reassuringly. He wanted to have a few words with Autumn however Marshal came over to him before he was ready to go and Luke looked at him, nodding in agreement. “Read my mind man.” He replied softly.

“I was hoping he’d offer to go, personally. I’d feel better if you guys had someone else to watch your backs.” However he wasn’t going to argue. He trusted that Marshall was capable of taking care of the pair of them. He doubted the kid in the corner was even able to look after himself at the moment. Let alone two girls. So he’d stay. Once Sophia and Marshall had left and Katelyn closed the door he relaxed a little, even as she went and sat beside the boy and invited them to help her count food.

His look became softer at the sight of her with Ashley and he nodded encouragingly to the little girl. The door to the house was currently unlocked, seeing as that couldn’t actually be locked without a key, which they didn’t have. “Just in case you guys wanted, there is running water if you wanted to get cleaned up a little.” He reminded them. He was probably being a little harsh on the kid, but the fact of the matter was that this was bigger than any of them at the moment and if his rashness or emotional weakness was a threat to the group then that just meant more work for the rest of them trying to survive.

Still, him and Marshal ganging up on him probably wasn’t helping the matter so Luke made a decision to at least try and forgive him for his earlier stuff up, so long as nothing else like that happened again. Sighing softly Luke pulled the machete out of the holster on his back and sat on the ground, his back to the house door as he watched the other one closely. Suddenly he heard a gunshot and flinched slightly. That was way too close to here for his liking. He instantly began worrying about Marshall and Sophia but knew he couldn’t leave now to go look for them.

That would just be stupid knowing that those dead things were attracted to sounds. They’d be swarming the street in minutes. Going outside would be suicide. Ash jumped physically at the noise too and looked over to look for comfort. He seemed tense, but didn’t look worried so she calmed down a little, however did move closer to Katelyn as she sat beside the girl.