That was all she heard before somebody pulled the trigger. The short scream of a person was being covered by the long echo of the shot. Then scilence.
Tiffany sat not so far away from this event. For her liking was it too close and she was scared that she was breathing too loud that they might hear her. She was hiding behind a car infront of the wall, chin to her chest and her hands were in her hair. There was actually no reason why she should be scared and she wasn’t even if her body reactet this way. Still, if they find her out here they might think that she smuggels things or worse. She just didn’t want to take the risk.
Why was she even out here? It actually startet off normal. As always she went outside to search some places for supplements and things she (-or dear ones) may need right now. This time she went to a rotten mansion not too far away. After a time she arrived at a place, things were laying around in a mess. She seached the upper etages. Succsessfully. Tiffany found blankets, even in a not too bad contition. Soon after that she went back down to put them in her backpack. Then one thing caught her eye. A rather hidden door. The only thing that bugged her: Spores. They were streaming out the gap, between wall and the door. Slowly,Tiffany looked around. No sounds. Nothing. Her thoughts were fighting in her head. No sounds are meaning no infectet,but Runner might just stay in cover. She breathes out before she made up her mind. Tiffany doesn’t likes this place so she made it fast and covers her face with the mask. To make sure there was no infectet there, she took an object and trew it in the far right corner of the room. Again. Nothing, so she stepped into it and looked around in awe. The fungus was creeping up the wall. The whole room was permeated with it. She took out a test tube to put a bit of the fungus in there, (-Of course, she did not touch it with bare hands.) Then she heard the sound she hatet. Clicking. The room seems to had a hidden backroom. She froze first on her place, but as soon she saw them she startet to run. Outside the door, to her backback to grab it and then outside the mansion. Tiffany startet to slow down after a while, it did felt like a déja-vu. Again she stood here, in front of the wall. Like five years ago. Since her feed hurded she slowly walked to the little pathway, where no patrol is watching, at least she thought so. “Hands in the air!“. Again, she startet to run to hide behind the cover.
It had been minutes, since the person got shot. Shortly after that the patrols were going away. It didn’t seem like they saw her. So she walked to the pathway to squeeze herself through the hole. As she arrived at her little home, she only trew her backpack into the corner and laid down, before drifting off to sleep.
Tiffany woke up, as the sun shined through the little window. It took a few mintues untill she stood up and took her backpack to rummage into it. Then from one second to another she was fully awake. It was gone. The sample she took yesterday. ’‘Damn-”, she cursed unter her breath as she stood up. Tiffany has a few molotov coctails, but that again would rise the risk that the sample is still in the with fungus filled room and the fire would destroy it. So she needed better equipment. The sigh she let out was long as she made her way outside.
The streets were more filled then usual. It took almost half an hour to arrive at her destination. Her attention was on the building at the end of the street. Tiffany made her way inside, hoping that the person she searched was presend. The builing was filled. Even if it took a while, she found him. Sightly smiling we walked to him.
