[b][i][u]Mercy[/b][/i][/u]

Mercy’s breath left her in a shaky exhale as the woman didn’t strike her, her voice had saved her but doomed them. She didn’t have time to feel guilty though as the shop seemed to come alive with grunts and groans as the undead roused around them. Her soft blue gaze was fixated on the woman taking in her appearance quickly as she muttered something, lowering her baton for a mere moment and pointing it at the front door. 

[b]“Front door. Go!”[/b]

The other woman’s voice was abrupt but her tone instantly made Mercy pull herself together, she nodded quickly as she turned to Olivia, her eyes automatically catching shadows moving in several places. She gripped her weapon harder watching as Olivia struck out at one of the creatures her shot missed but before Mercy could intervene the girl had dispatched the shambling corpse. She opened her mouth to say something as Olivia turned to her watching the girls eyes slide from her face and focus on something over her shoulder, the look in her eyes warning enough as Mercy spun round hammer at the ready. 

She hadn’t been prepared for how close the creature was to her, the hammer smacked against the side of the creatures head as Mercy twisted away from its flailing arms, tripping it so it nose dived into the corner of the shelves between her and Olivia. As it fell to the floor she leapt forward angling the hammer slightly to her right she brought it down into the creature’s soft skull with a sickening squelch, gore spattering across her hand but away from her face. She went to pull the hammer back gasping as the handle splintered and broke away from its metal counterpart. Without time to think about it she dropped the useless piece of wood watching the young redhead finish mashing in another of the creatures faces, she frowned at the young girl as she breathed her name pointing to something to Mercy’s right, her gaze shifted to where Olivia pointed her stomach twisted painfully as she noticed the trapped man, looking at Olivia with pleading eyes, Mercy flinched as she heard a dog bark.

There was no time for this she reached for Olivia who seemed to have frozen, attempting to grip the girls arm as she didn’t seem to be moving. “Hurry” She murmured to Olivia indicating for her to move after the dark haired woman who had already begun to run to the front of the store. “Quickly” She encouraged the red head, moving along behind her. “I see him, just get out!” Mercy hissed if the young girl protested, there was a harsh undertone in her voice that had not been there before. As they moved she reached up pulling her bow over her head, trying to stay aware of her surroundings as she counted the distance between herself and the young man. Nimble fingers found an arrow from her quiver, only once they’d almost reached the ajar door did she turn pulling the string taut she inhaled before loosing an arrow at the undead around the cabinet, the short distance worked miracles, the arrow split through one of the creatures necks, severing the spinal cord on its way through only to impale in the side of another’s head. 

Mercy reached for another arrow taking a step back a glass cabinet protecting her right side but unfortunately her left side was open to assault from the undead, her hands were trembling as she aimed another arrow at another of the creatures aiming for the one blocking the man’s escape from the cabinet if she could hit it...he could slide out and run for them. She was so focused on the creature by the display cabinet she didn’t see the other ambling up to her left side, she inhaled before releasing her arrow poking her elbow out just a fraction enough to avoid the string connecting with her bare arm. The arrow ran true embedding itself in the back of the head of the creature scratching at the door, now it was up to the man she couldn’t spare many more arrows, she had barely pulled another from her quiver when a groan to her left announced another creatures presence, Mercy’s eyes flicked to rest on it as it lurched towards her she would be hard pushed to avoid it without assistance.