>>5768647Unlike the other vents she has seen so far, this one is placed higher up the wall and offers very little head space.
The short mutants would struggle to climb inside and all who are remotely as fat as the one Hemya just killed would get stuck.
A perfect emergency exit if it wasn't for those four pesky screws holding the cover in place.
The "lantern" that our fat friend was carrying turned out to be a bundle of chem-light sticks, glued onto a metal base.
Their light might have dimmed over the years but its still bright enough for Hemya to work on the vent.
The girl managed to remove two of the screws before she heard the wet smacking of bare feet on metal.
She quickly tore of the hood from the dead mutant and covered the lantern to dim its light a little.
The flickering light of a torch approached from the left, accompanied by the toxic smell of burning plastic.
There is at least one of them, huffing from the exertion of waddling at a brisk pace towards the noise he heard.
>1. Strike right as it walks in>2. Let it enter the room to make sure that it is alone>3. [write in] 