After hours of searching through the current building, Lex managed to come out with a few useful materials. Luckily, one of these things included a new shirt for Jim; although it wasn’t exactly new with its strong stench of stale cloth. Right before slipping back out the entrance door, the familiar growling of a creature echoed from not too far outside the building. By the sounds of it, the creature seemed to be after something. Lex didn’t move to see what it was hunting. Instead, she waited, hoping that whatever it was after was headed in the other direction. Rather than the fading howl of the creature, five gun shots seemed to go off, clearly getting its target considering a thump followed soon after. Lex took this time to peak through the crack of the door and saw a man appearing a little younger than Jim fiddling with his gun. Lex quickly jerked back and continued to wait. A few minutes later, she checked back again and this time the man was gone. Ducking through the door, Lex hurriedly made her way back home, making sure to keep out of plain site and any other creatures.
Jim scratched his once large but now shrinking belly, “Clever, indeed,” he said with a nod. Jim’s friendly expression quickly changed into that of one confused, “So your brothers just left you here? By yourself? That doesn’t seem right to me...” He said.
Noticing the little girl’s watering eyes, Jim slowly lifted himself from the hole, leaving the open door to rest on the ground. “Well, I shall wait with you until they return. I need some fresh air anyways; I’ve been cooped up in that hole for a couple days!” Jim took a deep breath and then plopped himself onto the ground, leaning his back against the side of the building.
“So what’s your name, sunshine?”
Lex had been walking for a good twenty minutes now and would probably reach her destination within ten more. She didn’t hum any tune nor did she think any thoughts, she just focused on her footsteps, scanning all around her every minute. Right after the fourth scan, a loud clatter could be heard from a distance. Lex immediately stopped in her tracks, her eyes searching the direction the sound had come from. Even at a couple blocks down Lex could tell what was coming, and how many. It was as if it were a pack of them: One leading the other, desperate and starving. Lex whipped her head back the way she was going, quickly checking to make sure none were coming that way, as well. To her luck, there were none, and so she immediately took off into a sprint to Jeb and the safe room. It would hopefully be safe there until the creatures pass. There was no way two people could take on the ten of those creatures.