The drive is…oddly quiet, despite being ran with several jeeps. Jessica is sleeping, still, after being briefly woken and fed a few apples. They’d opted to put her in a vehicle with Izumi, unsurprisingly. “We’re not going to mince words here. We need the greenhouse as intact as possible,” Lia says. “If that girl can do what she did again, that’ll be lovely, but regardless we need the place cleaned out. As I said before, we’re not expecting you to handle it all yourselves. If you can get us in, we’ll focus on things from there.”

“It would more expedient to help you afterwards anyway,” you respond. Starting to get tired of all the zombies and tentacles and whatnot. Even the costume is starting to chafe a bit, you think. You don’t want to overburden Jessica, but hopefully this wouldn’t be TOO difficult either way, and rather quick.

That hope dies just a little when she points out exactly what you’re up against, coming out of a bridge tunnel near the outskirts of the city and looking ahead, down a small hill to where the street terminates into a T-section and the city proper nearly ends into more suburbs and grassland. She’d stopped the convoy to show you. Straight ahead and a bit to the right is where she’s pointing, and, well…

While in terms of size, it’s not larger than the tortoise thing (barely), it is…far less of a singular entity, clearly. It’s wrapped in a mass of smaller, thinner tentacles, like wild vines having overtaken the whole shebang. You can barely see the glass underneath the mass, even. And clearly there’s a number of Wracked nearby, walking through the wide grounds given it. Several of them are large, and…new to you. Even from this distance, you can see some with strange protrusions around their necks…almost like petals, ironically enough. Or maybe that’s intentional?

“Yikes!” Zipper says, almost waking Jessica up. “That’s a mess. And you need to clean THAT up?”

“It is,” Lia admits grimly. “Which is the whole issue. Strike down a few and the rest will come after you, if the roaming Wracked don’t first. Very territorial. And yet this commercial greenhouse area would be the best boon we’ve had in some time. With your abilities, we stand much more of a chance of taking it for ourselves.”

Well, as long as it ends this job faster.

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