" Hey " Montosi whispers, from the other end of the small building. She has the shutters of the back-window open a small smidge and she's peering out intently.
" I think the guards back here were recalled somewhere else. That gun. That's a rifled longrifle. Precision firing thing. Sounds like the Aikinom armory standard mark and make, so I'd hedge my bets that's the Operative firing at something. We might be in luck, maybe their Feast-friends came here hostile? Or they drew in something they weren't expecting "
Montosi flashed a sudden smile at Zivka, nodding.
>>6113792" Could work. Bound east as if we're fleeing, but then dip into another home? Is that what you're thinking? Any chasers would pound sand after us, and we double around and grab that mule. If we lay down some smoke and confusion, I think that might work.
I don't mind a scrap but I mind assaulting a barricade head on after moving a table. Your plan there is... solid. We might lose them in the trees"
She glances back out the shutter
" I think I see some of them, far up ahead. But it could be bushes. Are we doing this, or do you have a better plan? "