I ducked into another empty foundation nearby and let the fighter-y types handle it. Alanna is a cop and Tetsuko had a big bladed spear. I figured they could handle it.
Once the sounds of battle died down and I heard calm (mostly) voices chattering, I got myself out of the pit and came over to see what was going on. Nobody seemed upset with me for ducking and hiding, thankfully. They found a girl who'd had her eye punctured by the giants. We debated about how to help her. It wasn't easy because we're out in the middle of nowhere, it's a long drive to a place with an ER.
I suggested she stay at the lodge, with us, and we clean and dress the wound, at the very least. Mora opted to drive back with her and get her settled. The way Mora and Alanna banter... its like an old married couple (I can't tell if they really are sleeping together or if it's just teasing). I ended up kicking myself, later, though.
See, it didn't dawn on me that this girl was taking the wound to her eye extremely well. She should have been going into shock or something like that, but she was... calm... collected. Alanna and Mora kept chatting over walkie-talkies and apparently they had a code for "trouble". Something about "lupus"... I don't get it.
We had to run, on foot, back to the lodge (Alanna had to piggy-back my scrawny butt, because I just couldn't keep the pace for that long) and Alanna explained that there was another type of those giants called "Bright Ones" that look normal and are much smarter.
Just as we got back to the lodge, we could tell that things were bad. The door was busted down. Then, suddenly, Mora came crashing out of an upstairs window, and not in the action-movie-hero sort of way, either.
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