••••Valentina Riggs••••
L O C A T I O N: Sugar Mountain
M O O D: Alerted
W E A P O N S : A Hand Gun
Valentina could hardly see in the dark and the smell of rotten bodies mixing with the sound of groans just made her even more desperate than she expected. She was trapped on the ceiling of what she guessed was a house, but the night was too dim and nocturne for her to even wonder that well. Somehow she didn't even conclude at first how she was going to end if she climbed onto a roof surrounded by walkers, and it was pretty obvious the idea was now forever stupid. Valentina whispers a few curses before she loads her handgun, sadly and stupidly the only weapon she found in her way there, and takes a deep breath before looking down from the roof. The walkers groan loudly this time at the sight of her, they stretch their arms up to reach but obviously nothing happens, they just beg for her to jump down and maybe she was going to concede that to them later if she decided well between life or death. Valentina wonders how they haven't thought the idea of
climbing to get to where she was, but the walkers where more stupid than she thought and thankfully they still weren't that reasonable. But she sees how this female walker manages to somehow find a way to climb up, taking with her the other walkers that had seemed to analyze what she was doing and decided to perform the same action.
Her breathing agitates as her chest becomes tight, she is about to shoot them but then thinks,
"I can't do that. That's stupid, I'll only attract more of them.." And holds the desire to shoot because she at least has to try to make an effort to live, to survive and be strong enough. Valentina looks around with searching eyes, trying to figure out a possible way to get out of there and make it out like a normal human being and not a walker, but all she sees is the other roof that seems too far away for her to jump, and the tight hold she keeps at her gun is not helping at all. Her fist becomes pale and all the blood of her face drains away to her cold feet. The female walker makes it to the roof, fast enough to crawl over at Valentina and reach out hungrily for her leg, but Valentina hits her strongly on the face with the butt of her gun and pushes her off the roof, now just wondering how she was going to survive the next one.
It took her only a few minutes to think to remember she had a flicker in her pocket, and she quickly reachs out for it, trying unsucessfully to flick it with her shaky hands. But it falls to the floor and she panics even more, she can't see where it is because the night is too dark for her to take notice, and she kneels to touch the ground with her wounded hands to see if she finds it but feels nothig under the touch of her palms. Valentina finally finds the flicker and commences to flick it again, this time being able to produce a tiny flame from it, making her chuckle inanely. But suddenly a hand grips her shoulder and the flick falls down to the dirty clothes of a walker standing down groaning and his clothes turn on fire.
"s**t.." she swears and turns around to see that three walkers had made it to the roof now, and one of them was practically drooling at her face about to eat her arm, and she lets out a high pitched scream that echoes across the town and she hits him hard on the head with her gun and turning around to stare at the other roof, wondering if somehow she would jump to the other side. It was only then when Valentine notices the fire had grown bigger and other walkers where on fire too bawling out in pain, but it seemed that the light was only attracting more walkers towards that location, and she hoped she could run somewhere else and maintain the fire there to distract them.
Valentina manages to pass by the two remaining walkers that stretched their arms to grab hold of her, she jumps to the back of the house where only two walkers where vacantly walking around, and scoots between the houses until she mades it to the street and runs, looking behind to notice the walkers were still stupidly distracted by the fire. She stares across the street wondering to herself where she could hide for the rest of the night, even thought it wasn't even going to be easy to sleep without having nightmares and every house probably smelled like rot corpses. She frowns when the walkers seemed to at least notice she was running across the street and started to follow her incredibly fast at that moment, making her run even faster and run to the first house she found and kick at the door, discovering it wouldn't open and looks behind her back in panic, hoping the walkers wouldn't reach her in time.
She just thinks her instincts and escape strategies are horribly awful, all she was doing was making things worse than they already were, the fire was worse than a gunshot. Maybe she was going to die that same exact day for all she knew, she did horrible escaping, there where walkers following her and the possibilities of surviving where just being dragged across the ground. Valentina holds her breath and stares at the hungry monsters leap down to her, groaning in the process how desperate they were to eat her brains out, and she thinking,
"Hell no.. not now." and proceeds to run forward someone else, but sees nowhere else to be.
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