*Crack* *Crack*

The retorts of the rifles sounded sharply, as Lilly covered her head and scrambled across the street after her infinity more collected comrade. 

*Crack* *Ping*

A sharp metallic ring sounded just as Lilly was about to reach the safety of the alley, and she staggered sideways as she felt SOMETHING hit her. What was that?! Was she hit? She she was dripping blood. Was she dying?! AAAHHH!! Brenna had stopped just at the entrance, and nearly got knocked over by a thoroughly terrified Lilly, who did not stop running upon reaching the alley. She kept on sprinting right past Brenna, down the alley, and crashed through the unlocked door of the house at the end of it. "KYAAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Upon entering, she tripped and fell over a small chair that had apparently been propped up in a feeble attempt to deny entrance. Her scream and crash startled her just as much as it did the imperial sniper who had apparently been set up to shoot out of a window at the top of the stairs. Lilly just barely had the presence of mind to aim, before pulling the trigger as the man swung his rifle towards her. 

*CrackCrackCrack* 

When Brenna found her way into the house, she found Lilly in hysterics, a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs, and the corpse of a dead sniper with a bullet through his head (the rest landed in the wall) at the top of the stairs.
 
"Where is it?! WhereIsItWhereIsItWhereIsItWhereIsItWhereIsItWhereIsItWhereIsItWhereIsItWhereIsIt?!" Lilly was scrambling over her arm, shoulder and side, trying to find the wound where the sniper had shot her. Her searches became increasingly frantic, until she knocked something out of her shoulder plate - a bullet had been lodged in the thickest part of the metal, leaving a nice dent, a large bruise, and Lilly completely free of bullet holes. The blood covering her had been from the still damp munitions pouch looted from the dead Gallian soldier. "OH THANK THE VALKYRUR!!" 

*Thud* 

With that, Lilly fell to her knees and slumped against the wall, overwhelmed by a combination of fright, exhaustion, and the come down from the sheer amount of adrenalin she had been functioning on. Fortunately there didn't seem to be any more soldiers on the second floor, and upon looking out the window, one would be able to see that the staging area for the imperials and their officers was actually just a couple blocks down the road in an (previously) empty lot. Once Lilly got ahold of herself, it seemed like their mission objective would only be a stones throw away.