Amelia Payne
&
Raymond Mendoza
Location: Church Southeast of Newnan
Raymond stopped for a moment as he stumbled forward looking back the way that they had just came, the ground seemed to start to violently shake again below them. He could feel his heart starting to race as he looked towards Amelia and started to try and move a bit faster, he wasn't sure if the ground that they were walking on would end up swallowing them whole or not.
"Amelia we need to move faster!" He yelled towards her, he was getting scared that he might end up slowing her down. Ray could see the smoke in the distance where the distillery would have probably been, all the noise was drawing the walkers from all over.
It shook again! Amelia felt the inner fear rise again, but the fear and slightly warped up view of stuff that didn't exactly belong around them that made her constantly pumped up with what probably was adrenalin, she couldn't help but grab Ray stronger, afraid to let him go as the tremlbing was pretty strong still.
" It's... not fine. Fast... we need to move fast yes. We're running out of time!" She nodded trying to keep calm, but failing.
" That way! You see any walkers?" She asked, her vision not exactly the most reliable on that front just yet.
Raymond looked over his shoulder as he saw the herd of walkers turning around and noticing them, he quickly decided to turn and head south just to try and avoid the walkers. As they walked Ray could see Tiffany behind a few trees when he tried to get a better look she would be gone, and reappear a few feet behind another tree.
"I see them heading from the north." Raymond said taking a few deep breathes as he looked over his shoulder once more they still seemed to be moving fairly slow due to the cold weather. But he knew it wouldn't last that much longer it would warm up fairly quick.
"Keep heading south." Ray suggested, hopefully they could still outrun the walkers that noticed them.
Well that was not fine. The time was running, the walkers were upon them too. How did they pass through a freezing winter and still much anyhow? Frankly she didn't really even want an answer, Amelia was sure it would just depress her more.
" Alright..." She replied to Ray, still moving with him.
" We'd need to make them lose sight eventually... have to break the pursuit." Amelia groaned in irritation. It was not the best condition of the whole surroundings. Not to mention she was afraid the holes might open beneath them any moment now. The tremors that they felt a little ago, made her believe there might be more destruction yet to happen still. She was happy they got out the walls when they did.
Raymond looked at Amelia for a moment, and nodded slightly but that would be a bit harder to try and get as far away from the Walkers as possible. He was running on one leg, he just continue forward whipping a bit of sweat off of his forehead.
"Are you holding up okay?" Raymond asked Amelia looking at her. He was also still worried about her mental state as well as his own to, seeing stuff that wasn't there with walkers on their tail was never good.
"Holding..." Amelia replied, thinking about the fact they had to break direction to go Southeast.
" For now." She added with a smile, thinking about hte fact that she was seeing walkers underneath their feet yet again. She was barely holding in the maniacal laughs in her mind, but kept it in, reminding herself it was not real, no matter how it seemed.
" We cannot even stop... We whould take any chance to buy us distance or to break line of sight ahead... maybe the walkers will fall the hole behind us or hit a tree..." Sometimes the lack of vehicles was truly a nightmare, then again she did not have good memories with vehicles. Her mind was also trying to keep occupied to not care about the walkers underneath her feet every now and then.
"We will make it through this." Raymond would say as he looked over his shoulder as they turned southeast and watched as one of the walkers ended up falling down into the crevice. And another getting itself impaled onto a piece of rubble from the wall, at least those walkers wouldn't be a threat now. Raymond really wished he had his leg back, the walkers behind them continued to try and catch up to them he was thankful that they weren't gaining yet.
"Hopefully we can try and find a car somewhere." though that was probably not going to help any there was most likely none working and this close to Newnan.
"I doubt there's a car so close that wasn't salvaged for parts..." Amelia grimly said, hearing noises from behind including the sound of something falling into the abyss opening around them.
" There's bound to be a place we can get some advantage and distance. We cannot stop just yet." She added, not feeling too great right now because of the situation.
"One can only dream right?" Raymond said jokingly trying to lighten the mood as they continued to run, it would certainly make things a lot easier to get some distance. Ray could see some walkers heading south east as they got closer then he noticed that there was a church there not to far from them.
"There the church right there, could be a place to lay low for awhile until the walkers move past." Ray suggested, it was probably their best bet or could end up being a trap and they would be trapped if any walkers noticed them.
"I..." Amelia couldn't think of a better plan. With Ray, there was no chance to run their way through the walkers.
" Alright, we will rest in the church and wait for them to pass." She agreed and looked about, before focusing on their target again. They really needed the rest too! Climbing over the ruine walls up and down was tiring. What's more, she did that while helping Ray, who probably was in worse state than her too. The church was quickly getting closer until they were by it.
" Let's get in before they see us." Raymond nodded as he awkwardly moved up the small brick steps up to the church, once they were there Raymond opened the door once Amelia had entered it he closed the door. Looking at the door closely he could see that the door wouldn't lock, sighing slightly he took a few deep breathes as he moved slowly over seeing that the building had already been raided once before. After their long run from escaping the ruins of Newnan he was pretty tired and sore. Ray then decided to check out his bugout bag, and started to open it up and check it's contents to see what they had to work with.
Amelia herself wasn't in condition much better than that Ray was. She felt the limits of her strenght as they ascended the stairs of the church and entered it. She needed to rest a little. To catch her breath. She was not seeing things anymore so that was a good thing at least as they entered. The place appeared rather empty, with such proximity to Newnan it must have been raided rather soon after the settlement formed actually. She didn't know for sure, but the fact was that the condition of the boarded windows and the door wasn't the greatest. First of all the boards were loose and the door couldn't lock. That's why she silently sat down, took a deep breath and whispered to Ray.
" We need to be really quiet..." She noticed Ray was checking his bugout bag, good plan, she also had to check hers, but she already had a knife at least. Checking the bugout bag was indeed a good thing to do while resting.
' Riley... please be safe.' Amelia prayed silently in her mind.