003: [Visual]/Location: Elisa's apartment

[garg_elisa]

The first night of the zombies, they had been too far away from Central and Elisa's apartment for her to notice.  When she went out, she largely confined her gliding to that portion of Taxon

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[timedaughter]

"Zombies!" says Jenny, almost cheerfully. What? She hasn't had this much excitement in months.

"Apparently it's some kind of sickness that reanimates corpses. It's spread through blood or saliva, so don't let them bite you." She rattles off these facts as if she read them from a book, or just now heard it from someone else. Which is probably exactly the case.

[garg_elisa]

Well, color her surprised. She's seen just about everything under the sun, from Gargoyles to aliens to ghosts to fairies to the freaking Loch Ness Monster, but zombies? Somehow, even after all those things, she managed to be somewhat skeptical.

"...How long has this being going on?"

[timedaughter]

"Not too long; you haven't missed much, but these things spread fast. It's probably a good idea to arm yourself if you're not already."

[garg_elisa]

Elisa nods. "I've got a gun," she says. One of the first things she'd gotten after they'd decided to start organizing the police-types.

"There's a mob of them outside my building. They haven't gotten in to climb stairs. Yet."

[ voice ]

[tothelibrary]

I'm kind of thinking zombie apocalypse.

[ dawn, sound less intrigued by this. ]

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[garg_elisa]

...You have got to be kidding me.

[ voice ]

[tothelibrary]

It's pretty classic Romero out there, sorry.

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[garg_elisa]

...Oh, for the luvva...

You sound pretty calm, all things considered.

[Voice]

[allthatlife]

A zombie invasion.

[It sounded like a joke. Martha certainly wished that she was joking. Only her tone - grim and completely serious - made it clear that she was telling the truth.]

Half of the city is overrun.

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[garg_elisa]

Elisa recognizes the voice. "Martha?"

Half the city? Damn. That was... not good for anyone in general and possibly her in particular once they figured out how to climb stairs. She was confident in her ability to keep away from them... so long as the sun was down. Once it went up, well, she was one shambling mass away from a very nasty shattering.

"That bad?"

[Visual]

[allthatlife]

By way of confirmation, Martha switched the tablet to the visual function - she'd left her surgery in the central district and was currently sheltering in one of the few zombie free areas of the city - and gave Elisa a tired smile.

"That bad," she confirmed, "And it's spreading fast."

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[garg_elisa]

"Shit," Elisa said in a harsh whisper.

Elisa would have been worried about the people here anyway in such an event, but a Gargoyle's first instinct is always to protect. And some small part of her had recognized that Taxon was her home for the foreseeable future. Instincts that had once applied to Manhattan were already applied to this place. A part of her ached for action, to leap to the city's defense.

"Are you somewhere safe?"

[Visual]

[noheatnikki]

Kate recognized Elisa's voice, picking up her tablet to reply.

"Zombies, apparently. Because this place wasn't weird enough."

She searched Elisa's face, trying to determine how she was doing.

"You holding up?"

Re: [Visual]

[garg_elisa]

Elisa's face has become a mass of steely determination.

"Fine, other than annoyed that I missed seeing it get this bad," she said. "You all right?"