Xynthia watched the police cruiser approach carefully and smiled.

"I knew you'd come for me..." She whispered.

Geoff stopped the squad car and got out, "Xynthia, thank God you're alive... get in the car quickly and we'll get you back to the others as soon as I find out if Fort Monroe is a safe haven or a death trap."
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Allan quickly got out of the car. "Xynthia?" He started to move toward her, and then stopped. "How..." All the color had drained from his face, and he had the expression of someone who had just seen a ghost. Allan's rifle was pointed down, but his grip on it tightened.

Xynthia smiled gently at Allan: "I'm not dead yet, honey... Mommy knows I wouldn't be useful to her if I were. She needs your help, too."

"My help?" Allan began to walk toward her.

Geoff pulled the Remington 870 that he had liberated from the gunshop and slung a bandoleer of fat red cartridges around his chest. He held the shotgun at high port and kept a careful watch as the Reverend headed toward his wife. When he heard Xynthia's enigmatic suggestion his mind started to race. Maybe this would allow them to determine the source of just what was going on.

He gripped the gun tightly, gaining comfort from its solidity although he seriously doubted that he'd be able to solve whatever conundrum was unreeling at their feet with firepower.

Xynthia sighed: "She planned this for a long time, as long as Daddy planned the Rising. We are not the only ones, but she says we are her best bet."

Worried that he might be putting two and two together and making five, Geoff just stood still and kept watch.

10:00, Today: Geoff Wayne rolled 12 using the Unisystem system (1d10+7) with rolls of 5.

"Her best bet to do what?" Allan stopped in front of his wife and looked into her eyes. "Can she stop this?" His left hand reached out and gently touched the side of Xynthia's face. "If we help her, will she... let you go?"

Xynthia raised a hand to stroke her husband's cheek: "We can't have it both ways... She needs us to stop daddy, and if we want to do that I will need more of her gifts. You know what they say: with great power comes great insanity."

Her irises switched from their normal ice blue to deep blue, then dark blue, then black. Then she blinked and she was back to normal.

Geoff looked around nervously, "There's zombies coming."

"We'd better do something soon," he wasn't envious of the Reverend's choice between trying to save the world and seeing his wife drop off the edge or keeping his wife sane and let the world go to hell, "I think we've got serious company coming."

Allan grabbed Xynthia's hand and tried to pull her with him as he quickly made his way back toward the car. He stopped near Geoff and readied his rifle. "Run or fight?" he asked the officer.
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"Run if we can," Geoff said, "unless Xynthia needs us here."

Xynthia thought for a moment: "There is nowhere to run. The road behind you is filling with Reborn as we speak. They will not touch me, but I cannot hold them all off."

Geoff shouldered his shotgun, "If there's nowhere to run, is there anywhere to hide? I doubt we can fight them all."

Xynthia bit her lower lip: "If... If I Bless the car, and you hide in there, they will leave you alone. But I'm not sure what the effects of spending a long time inside it may be..."
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"If the car is blessed," Geoff asked, "and the blessing repells them, why can't we drive away?"

Xynthia shook her head: "My Blessing doesn't repel them, it just kinda makes you fade in the background. If you do something interesting, they will notice you. Allan's Blessing, will keep the small ones away, but the big ones will all come after you."

"Is there any way of telling the big ones from the little ones?" Geoff asked as he aimed his shotgun, "I might be able to thin them out."

Xynthia smiled sadly and replied: "The big ones look like me... Well, maybe not quite as hot, but they look and react like living humans."
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Geoff looked around and said, "OK, if we use our guns to thin out the human looking ones then we might be able to use your Blessings to get out of here, that or we run on foot. Any comments?"

"Or Xynthia and I attract their attention while you make a run for it," Allan said to Geoff. "You need to get back to the rest of the group. They need you. My place is with my wife."

Xynthia smiled at her husband: "My knight in a shining armor... But what if Geoff runs into a pack of Reborn? I think we should stay together. If we try to go back, we will run into at least two groups of them that I can sense, and there may be more beyond them. If we go forward, I might get us into the fort, but then we will be surrounded."
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"Hell," Geoff said, "we're surrounded here, let's get to the fort, at least we'll have walls and a chance to devise a solution."

They were out of time to debate options. "Forward then, into the Fort."