Day 8

[notursalvation]

[WHO] Nagi and Yuri
[WHERE] Msida
[WHEN] Day 8, morning
[STYLE] Prose
[RATING] PG?
[STATUS] Closed (if you want in, IM/PM me)

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As if on cue, Yuri emerged, stepping through the broken frames of what used to be the front door of the store; she tiptoed through shattered glass carefully, as if the sound of glass cracking under her feet would attract unwanted attention that her rummaging inside did not. It didn't seem like it had, and despite Nagi guarding the front all this time, the girl still prepared the handgun in her hand in case anything would have tried to come for them. In the other was a plastic bag, which barely had anything in it at all.

"No luck here," Yuri announced, and somehow she managed to keep disappointment out of her voice. They couldn't be successful every time, she knew, so she simply jerked a thumb behind her where she came. "Barren shelves and spoiled food. Looks like this place got ransacked pretty good."

Taking one more cautionary glance around them, Yuri approached the car Nagi sat upon, staring up at the large sheet of paper he held curiously. "What did you find there?"

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Nagi slid down from the roof of the car and held out the map to show her.

"It was in the car. I can't read most of it, but I think we're about here." He pointed to Msida on the map, having guessed based on street signs and the location of the church where he'd originally shown up. "I've been looking at it, and I think it might be a good idea to move to another location now that we've stashed some things here."

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Yuri leaned over, scanning her eyes across the map, although she couldn't make out what most of it was, either. Was this in English? No, maybe it wasn't; her proficiency in the language was nothing short of awful, but she knew just enough to tell this had to be something else. Nonetheless, she attempted to make heads or tails of the map, though with little success. It was a good thing Nagi had been able to make it out, because Yuri knew she hadn't traveled around enough to make an accurate guess.

"Yeah," Yuri agreed without hesitation, nodding. "We'll be secure on that front, at least for a little while, and there's nothing in this town. Some other place has got to be better than the mess here."

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He was glad she agreed and smiled slightly. "I'm not sure what the best destination is. Towns will have the most supplies, but a rural area may have less of those things."

Fingers playing idly in the edge of his scarf, he looked over the map again, then glanced up and down the street to make sure they were still alone.

"It might be a good idea to set up multiple stashes of supplies in different locations, especially the larger towns." He couldn't readily tell from the map which towns would most quickly yield up supplies, but there was no harm in exploration.