Jace turned to look at Basil with wide eyes, incredulous. He stared at him for a long time before finally speaking. "Are you insane? We come this far and now you want to just leave with one snag in the road?" Okay, so maybe there had been a baker's dozen or two of hitches in the road, but he had had a good feeling about this one. And to leave without knowing just seemed stupid in his book. "This...woman, could already have it hidden somewhere. Do you really want to risk overlooking it?"

	Kaye, still trying to be on her best behavior like Leith had said, allowed him to go first but kept close behind him. Although she wasn't much of the mercenary or soldierly type, she knew how to handle a weapon though situations like this still freaked her out. She didn't like varmint at all and usually squealed when seeing a radroach or a rat, but what jumped out at them definitely wasn't either of those things. 
	A raider had been hiding inside an open vent as he listened to the people arguing in the cafeteria. He was on he way up from the basement, having been the only one to escape the hellfire down there, and was going to up rendezvous with the two in the cafeteria to tell them what had happened. He'd been looking for an opening to escape for two days and had finally found one, but not without getting shot in the right shoulder.
	Once he'd gotten upstairs, he heard gunshots and voices that didn't sound like his comrade's voices, so hidden and waited for them to leave. He wasn't a coward, not by a long shot, but he wasn't an idiot. When you knew you would lose, then what was the point of charging headlong into Death's arms? When he heard the two approaching, though, he panicked, knowing they would see him hiding there but it was the only place that was in quick access. 
	He jumped out of his hiding place, a rusty pistol raised with a shaky hand. "D-Don't shoot and I won't shoot!" He backed up a few paces and tripped over his own feet, landing on the floor. Although he was frightened, he tried not to show it. "Don't come any closer!"