>>6339807Behind you, Hassan seems equally baffled, taking hold of your shoulder to steady himself. You look back at him with a look of terror and disbelief. A dead calm now reigns over the battlefield, as the corpse of the fungal monster continues to slowly disintegrate in place.
Maggde is still on all fours, now in apparently great pain. It's hard to tell from the smoke, but she appears to be coughing up blood.
"Get up!" Another voice emerges through the chaos, this one you don't recognize. You look back and see Taranta, also from the excursion. Why was she with Maggde?
"You don't get to order us around," Hassan starts between bouts of coughing. "We're the ones who almost got killed. Don't you get that we were sent here to *die*? Like *her*!" He points at the zombified girl. Still trapped under the vine, she's no longer moving.
Taranta spares one look at her and doesn't falter. "The whole place is a contamination zone now." She covers her mouth with a hand as to make this point. "We have to clear the area. There are people coming for her. Do you want to get spored, too?" She turns around and begins running towards the perimeter, as if expecting you to follow.
>"She's right. Let's get out and regroup.">"We can't leave the girl! Is she even breathing?!">"We need to wait for Maggde and Chernabel." 