Dead of the Night... Silently Happening.

[Ash]

Ryan was in the midst of squeezing through a couple of pipes that went vertically from the top of the station right through the floors. Promise stood on the other side waiting for him. He smiled up at her nervously, feeling like he was stuck already. When he was finally able to get most of his body through he tried to continue unaware that his foot was still stuck. That combined with gravity, Ryan managed to fall jaw first onto the ground. He heard his jaw crack as he landed, then rolled over from the pain with a howl!.

When he was done messing around he moved to lift himself up with his arms. He glanced up as he saw a shadow among the darker halls, only to look up and see Promise kneeling down in front of him. Their faces not very far at all. His tough face softened and reddened as he realized he was so close he could kiss her nose.

She just smiled at him before standing up and moving on. Max staid to kiss Ryan’s boo-boos away. His tongue bathed the boy’s face and made him laugh as well as feel better. He has to give the dog a soft push before he can get up fully.

The two humans and her dog have been moving through obstacles like this one for the past few hours.

It has been harder at times and plenty easier than this one. After the male frees his foot, he can turn around and pull the bag through.

He wondered how Promise knew about this route, definitely not one you want to use to go to work daily.

Ryan sighed out before turning over and looking for the next hoop to jump through. Instead, he welcomed the slight of a cleared path, free of pipes for as far as the eye could see.

Precious followed his example and smiled a relieved smirk, she could finally see the hospital she worked at. She took this moment to comprise a list of things they would have to do upon entering the hospital They had to get to the middle floor and reach the nurse's station. The button was in the back and next to it was an intercom. It sounded easy and simple but doing it would be much different and probably a lot more difficult. The relief came to her in a calming effect, but when she heard another shuffle, her bat came around quicker than her eyes.

"Whao!" Ryan cried out, ducking out of the way of the bat. "It's just me!” He held his arms out defensively but opened towards her. “ I think we should take a break." He explained, worried that they were overdoing it.

“Oh… Sure, we can do that.” She assured him.

Ryan sighed his own relief before crashing against the floor and letting his legs dangle off the ledge. He took a deep breath, exhaled, took another deep breath and then Max came over to sniff at his nose, hoping he was okay. This made the grown man laugh and pet him lovingly. He also looked up at Promise, expectantly before patting the side of the ground.

Promise did sit down, letting her legs dangle off the edge as well. She took a minute to look over at her home. They were in the slums, buildings weren't so shiny here and the lights weren't so bright. She wondered who was alive still, were there zombies down there clawing at the walls, trying to climb up to get them? Hope looked over the edge, not able to see the street, much less anyone on it.

She turned back to Ryan, he was already in a can of peaches, scooping out the pieces of fruit with a plastic fork. She shook her head with a smile and pulled her pack off, pulling out Sonya who climbs up the arm of her owner and sniffs the air. Promise tried hard to keep the rat happy by dumping the animal's pellets out and over the edge. The ball wasn't spotless, but better than it was. Next, she gave the animal a piece of food and Max came over to sniff the rat food.

Hope sighed, forgetting about Max's food. She offers him some and to her surprise he takes it. The rat climbed onto Max, the two worked out well so Hope didn't worry when she felt Sonya leave her.

They ate and drank the water, giving Max bites that they didn't finish, by choice or by pity for the animal.

After the break, Ryan looked over his stuff taking in stock of what they had. For one girl, Promise had a lot of food. If they rationed it well they could eat a week off of it with Max getting all the scraps. Still, he wanted to find food on the way, where ever they were headed, to feed everyone comfortably.