Amelia, Raymond, & Samira
Location: Church southeast of Newnan
Skills: Stealth(x1), Athletics(x1)
Sam nodded, at least her two companions seemed to know the area pretty well. She trusted them to find a safe place to stay, at least for the night. Hopefully get cleaned up somehow and rest from their tiring day. Sam could feel the fatigue hit her muscles sore from exertion and pain from the cuts and bruises she had all over her body from their slip n' slid misadventure.
She placed her hand on her ribs and she pushed past the pain as the group covered ground as they made their way around the snowy grounds, moving around trees and the odd rust bucket that would continue to rust until there was nothing left. At least walkers would easily get caught on the sharp metal that protruded from them.
"Better luck next time," Sam joked as her companions explained that everything around was looted. The name Newnan came up again, but Sam held off the questions for now.
"As long as we find someplace to sleep and get cleaned up," Sam paused as she looked down at her clothes covered in blood and dirt,
"I'll be happy."Moving was hard... focusing was getting harder too, Amelia was realizing as they continued to walk east. She could see a walker by the street, they would have to go through the walker in order to cross. They had no choice. She held onto the bat, but was forced to also use it to lean on as an impromptu walking stick now and then. Amelia was making noise again and falling behind a little, but with some pushing herself up, she barely kept up.
” Once we cross this street, we should start heading southeast through the backyards again...” She panted, trying to get her breathing under control again.
” Once we get down to that big street and cross it.. we should find some shelter there that's in better condition...” She was unable to remember the name of the street. Frankly the map was getting into a blur in her head. She only vaguely recalled the street positioning. Luckily they were mostly straight lines and angles around this part... If they didn't find a place to rest soon, she might be fall from fatigue. But she just begged herself to hold onto nightfall. They still had to move until nightfall.
Raymond looked over his shoulder towards both Sam and Amelia it looked like that the two of them were getting really worn out, he leaned slightly against his walking stick it was a good place to at least get a drink of water for now. He awkwardly started to adjust his backpack and started to search around through it, hoping to find some water in there. When he found the canteen of water, Ray started to pull it out. Twisting the cap off Raymond took a quick sip of water feeling it sliding down his throat, letting out a slight sigh.
He waited for the two ladies to catch up. Ray first handed it over towards Amelia, looking at her she was looking really tired and worn out.
"Here take a drink, you need to keep hydrated after tugging my ass around everywhere." Ray said jokingly as he waited for Amelia to take it, before handing it over towards Sam as well.
"Here have some as well, lets keep moving."“Tired... so tired...” Amelia mumbled as Ray handed her a bottle of water.
” Thank you, Ray.” She told him, taking a few sips from it, before returning it to him, starting to walk again. It was hard to move. Her head was in a little bit of a daze as she moved, then she kicked some rusted metal something or other. She didn't even notice what it was. Maybe a bucket or something because it sounded half hollow. It made hella noise, but she shuffled forward. The walker was already in reach, she moved rather well considering.
” Humph...” She took a breath as she swung, it was the only way to keep focused and muster the strength to strike. The strike came true and the head was knocked to the side... or not. Amelia realized she did not strike it dead. It's head was seemingly dislocated or something, but the jaw was still moving as it crashed on the ground.
” I... let's just move.” In her head she was seriously considering to just separate from Sam and Ray and go on a noise making to lead walkers from those... she was drawing too much attention to them and both of them were hurt or had problems moving normally.
"Alright great, that's not too far." Sam grabbed the water from Ray and nodded at him before she took a giant gulp and drank eagerly, water spilling from the corner of her mouth. Sam let out a small burp and took a deep breath,
"thanks for that." As if on cue, her stomach grumbled loudly. She remembered the protein bars she had inside her backpack and as they took a rest she pulled two out and handed them to both Ray and Amelia.
"This'll fill you right up," Sam commented happily.
Sam opened up hers and the experience was almost spiritual as she body rejoiced in digesting the food after days of not being fed properly. She heard a noise as Amelia started moving again and when Sam looked in her direction she saw the woman was once again engaged in a tussle with one of the brain dead walkers. Sam started forward and ran to help her, but she stumbled onto something on the ground on her way there, a piece of metal - she didn't fall, but her protein bar tumbled down into a pool of dark, coagulated blood.
"Just my luck," Sam sighed but chuckled as she turned to Amelia. The walker was still moving, but it was looking pretty rough.
"You okay?" Sam asked as she followed the redhead's lead.
Raymond looked towards both Amelia and Sam when the both took drinks from his water bottle and nodded towards the two of them and gave them a friendly smile.
"Don't mention it." Ray said softly as he went to put the waterbottle back into his pack and zipped it up. He continued to move forward, until he watched Amelia she was really looking out of it now and was starting to worry about her mentally and physically. Ray turned towards Sam when she pulled out a few protein bars, he accepted it and gave her a friendly nod.
"Thank you." Ray said just as Amelia swung her bat towards the walker, seeing it fall to the ground, Ray kneeled down taking out his knife. Ray quickly stabbed it in the head, whipping off the walker blood off of his pant leg, then Sam clumsily dropped her opened bar onto he ground right on the pool of blood of the walker. He turned and handed his over towards Sam, he would eat later.
"Here, take it back. Got some stuff in here." Ray said patting to the pack.
There was a distinct hardness in moving still, but Amelia felt like she was getting into a steady rhythm. As Ray finished the walker, she continued to walk towards the street. There was a lot of snow where they exited in between the houses. Getting around them would lose valuable time, so she just continued forward through the snow. Slow and steady and surprisingly quiet given she was stepping into snow, she moved forward, steady as she can. Looking left and right she could see some walkers, but it was doubtful they will reach the group.
Sam continued to follow Amelia, and as she looked around, surveying the area, she noted that the houses still looked extremely unsafe to take shelter in, white picket fiences that were once upright had fallen and were rotting on the ground. Her father had thought her how to make shelter out of pretty much anything, but with the group of walkers roaming around close to them it wouldn't serve them any purpose.
She dreamed of laying in a cozy bed with warm blankets cocooned around her after a long, hot shower. Perhaps that was a little too far out of reach, but it kept her going as she walked through the treacherous snowy terrain before them. At least she wasn't alone, and these people seemed really nice. She wished she would have met them in a less stressful situation. Though they would surely have time to talk later, as Sam had a few burning questions to ask them. Especially about this 'Eden' and 'Newnan' they had previously mentioned. She hoped it was a place where they could get food or a shower, but mostly food.
Raymond remained fairly quiet as they turned up onto the road, he cautiously moved over the snow lightly moving the stick back and forth before him just in case there was any ice that formed underneath the snow. The last time he fell it cost him his leg, as Ray moved he looked over towards Amelia for a moment. He couldn't really get a good reading on her from where he was walking. Ray also remained on full alert in case there were any walkers that were nearby but it seemed that they weren't taking any interest in them just yet.
It was so hard. Amelia breathed heavily as she took a step and then two, but it was about there that the strength she had was about finished. Most likely it was the snow trek that did the final nail in the coffin of her remaining strength. She stopped moving, using the baseball to lean on.
” Hell...to...it...” Amelia mumbled feeling like just falling over. She couldn't bring herself to take another step. When was the last time she felt that way, she wondered. She needed to rest so bad.
Sam caught a glimpse of Amelia slowing down and finally stopping altogether in front of her, to lean again her baseball bat and rest. Sam stopped beside her and rested a hand on her companion's shoulder,
"You okay?" There was no hiding it, the party was beat to shit, tired, and probably smelled like garbage. Sam wanted to sit down and take a breather as well, but the quicker they cross this junkyard of a neighborhood, the quicker they can find a building that won't fall onto them to rest for the evening.
Sam quickly glanced at the slowly setting sun and back to her companion,
"Come on, just a little further. Next walker that we come across, leave it to me yeah? You did enough skull bashing for today." Sam lightly tugged on the woman's arm and nodded her head ahead of them.
"Keep dreaming of a nice, comfy bed. It helps." Sam winked at the redhead as she continued her trek forward.
Raymond watched Amelia and moved over towards her taking a few deep breathes as he trudged through the snow to catch up to them grunting loudly having a bit of a hard time to get through. He looked at her with a concerned look as Ray started to go into his pack. He was having a harder time this time to try and get the water bottle back out again, and nearly dropped it, but caught himself.
"Here just hold onto it for now Amelia." Raymond said, she was really not looking good at all she was looking utterly exhausted.
"Don't worry we will find a place to settle in for the night, you deserve as much rest as you can get." Ray said softly to try and reassure Amelia. He looked towards Sam, when she suggested that she'd take out the next walker that would come up to them, and gave her a slight nod.
"Just a little bit further we can rest then." ”I...” Amelia mumbled as Sam came over to provide some moral support it seemed. Amelia was tired, but the words rang through her mind still. They had to move.
”Thank you...” She took a few deep breaths, trying to muster any little bits of remaining strength she can. It wouldn't be much more maybe a block or two before they had to start thinking about settling for the night real good. Time was running short.
”Ray?” She asked quietly as he gave her a bottle of water. She smiled and took it, opening it and taking a sip from it.
”Yeah... just a little more. I can do that... Been through worse... I think...” She mumbled to herself, resuming to move again with a bat in one hand and a bottle of water in the other. She managed to pull through the bottleneck of fatigue, it was all a matter of how much she can run of fumes from now on. Resuming her walk, she walked steadily enough, without making any sounds.
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