Anaya looked around at the haunted city glowing in the weary sun's dying light.  "We find some shelter and rest for the night.  We have enough provisions for a few more days if we're careful.  Tomorrow we'll look around and see what else we can scavenge and if we can find some help."  She hitched her backpack higher purposefully and added, "And information."<br/><br/>Anaya was as alert as always, but nevertheless there seems to be something in her dark eyes that speaks of an inner distraction.  Something aside from their desperate situation that gnaws at her mind like a rat gnawing on her soul.  The city, as Shawn had noted, was eerily silent, and as they walk along it begins to weigh on every one of them heavily.  Some buildings are largely intact, but others are broken and in ruins, windows gone, stones blackened from some crazed fire.  As they round a corner, bricks from a crumbling wall are scattered over the roadway like shattered teeth.  Anaya's sharp eyes search the cross-street carefully and her nostrils flare slightly at the smell or ashes,  heat, and dust.<br/><br/>She stops finally at the double-metal doors of what appears to be an office building.  She hesitates, then reaches for the door handles.  Locked.  She drops her hands in frustration, then removes the sweatshirt she'd tied around her waste.  Using this to buffer the sound, she picks up a brick and thrusts it through the bottom of the glass door.  The glass shatters with a muffled tinkling noise and she breaks out the remaining shards.  Carefully, she ducks and looks inside.  All was quiet and she saw no movement, so she gestures the others to follow, and bends double to enter inside.  From all appearances, the building had been closed when most of the chaos ensued.  The desks and office equipment inside are intact and neatly in place for the most part, though there is one other window broken and the wires from the computer consoles extend from where the devices themselves had been stolen.  The broken monitor stares back with a black fragmented face nearby and shows their ghostly silhouettes as they pass by.<br/><br/>Anaya looks around carefully for several full minutes before daring to speak.  She turns to the others and opens her mouth.  "Thi----"  A growling figure suddenly slams into Anaya from behind.  It had to have been hidden behind one of the desks, but the speed and height that it jumped to reach her so quickly are astounding.