"Lying about the matter of facts doesn't help anyone in the end." Diane's reply was sharp and simple, as if she was reading it from a script instead of actually saying it herself. "There isn't an absence of evidence. There's an absence of survivors, but not the dead. I do thank you for trying to calm me down, I suppose..." Diane sighed, before she eventually got to her feet and brushed herself off. "There should be at least a cabin left to search. Maybe my luck will finally improve..." She shrugged, holding her notebook tightly in her grasp, twirling her pen in her grasp while glancing to the other person who had come up to comfort her. The first one who had arrived. "Alive in my mind doesn't really change the fact that, well, they're not in the waking world..." She sighed softly, before her eyes turned to Pierre.
"No one gives a damn about who you are, or what position you once held. I set off the flare because in a survival situation, you're meant to get into groups, not whine and moan. If you are going to stand here and try to prove your superiority by belittling the rest of us, you can walk right back into the forest, alone. I'm pretty sure mother nature would be very impressed with all of your fancy medals and charity auctions. Now, if you don't mind, either start doing something useful with your time and supposed superiority, or leave. I have MUCH more important things to think about than some political, military, whatever nutjob." Diane's tone was cold and sharp, as if she was speaking down to the bad child of the class whom had spoken out of turn, and tried to become some cool kid.
Diane took her flare gun, and reloaded it, before thrusting it into Sean's grasp. "If he tried to shoot me in the back with that fancy gun of his, shoot him with this flare gun." She said it just loud enough so that Pierre could hear. Oh yes, Diane Bright was done with any and all of anyone's bullshit. She began to walk towards one of the last remaining, unharmed cottages...before one of the kids began to come running out. It was a young girl, with dark red hair, adorable blue eyes, and the cutest of freckled skin. A thin tyke, dressed in her night gown. "Trish!?" Diane's voice was suddenly sounding so bright and hopeful, full of life...and then, she was two more kids come out of the cottage, chasing after Tris at a slow but steady gait, and that made Diane freeze.
It was a boy and a girl, the boy a classical look. Shaggy brown hair, torn jeans, white T...But, his neck, it was bent at an angle that was NOT natural. The girl? Well, she had a piece of wood sticking directly through where her heart would be. Now, Diane was a young adult, ergo, she knew her pop culture. Things like zombies and the like were nothing new to her, so, she just...acted. "SOMEONE SHOOT THOSE DEAD KIDS!" Diane seriously hoped that she'd never have to say a phrase like that again, even as she rushed to grab up the girl who seemed to be fine, Trish. Today was not the teacher's day.