[INDENT][INDENT][sub][hr][/sub][color=#c3b091][indent][sub][B]Location:[/B] [COLOR=gray][I]Rushford, Ohio -- Jenkins' Diner[/I][/COLOR][/sub][/indent][SUP][RIGHT][b]Date:[/b] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4952137][COLOR=gray][I]May 15th, 2019[/I][/COLOR][/url][/right][/SUP][/color][sub][hr][/sub]
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Cass's expression contorted into an anxious grimace at the ranger's answer. They had next to no time left before they had to get outta dodge and they still weren't ready to go- there was still talk of what all they should be grabbing and what could be safely ignored.  Thinking about the clock ticking down while she watched them go back and forth made Montoya's palms itch. Maybe she'd noticed it, or maybe Cass had just gotten lucky, but Karen decided to not-so-subtly ask Cassidy to check for ways out of the diner that didn't involve plunging through the front door's barricade and into the swarm of shambling dead just outside.

[color=c3b091]"Yeah, I'll go check it out."[/color] She agreed with a curt nod, bouncing on passed the others as she moved deeper into the restaurant. 

The place wasn't exactly in tip-top condition, probably hadn't been even before the apocalypse. The wallpaper was torn in places in the back and nobody had bothered to replace it, the wood flooring was scratched and stained with grease, and shelves of cardboard boxes filled with stale food lined the hallways. The kitchen wasn't big, only barely leaving enough room for two people to pass by one another in the pathways between the stoves and counters. 

Just in the back corner, next to the broom closet, was the appropriately marked emergency exit. She felt her heart sank when she got close enough to read the small, red sign beside it:

[quote][b]EMERGENCY EXIT ONLY
ALARM WILL SOUND[/b][/quote]
[color=c3b091]"Shit."[/color] She snarled under her breath. [color=c3b091]"So much for sneaking away."[/color]

After swallowing down a moment's panic and collecting herself, she began to look around the room for anything else of note. There didn't appear to be any other doors aside from this one and the one in the front, but there were a few windows. All of 'em were small, ancient looking things- at least the ones that opened- and there was no way they'd be fitting the big guy through any of them. But there [i]was[/i] one that gave her a partial view of the back of the diner. Not enough to scope the whole area out, but maybe it'd be enough. 

She climbed atop a metal countertop to get at it. The thing was so old that no amount of tugging with her hands was going to get it to open normally, so she slid her crowbar out from her backpack and held it tight in her fists. It took a bit of fiddling, but she managed to get the tip of it underneath the window and knocked it loose, doing her utmost not to make a racket as she did.

[color=c3b091][i]'Here's hopin' one of those things isn't just waitin' right outside. Ha. Wouldn't that be a stupid way to go out?'[/i][/color]

Once Cassidy had it open, she popped her head out to get a good look at their only escape route. 

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