“You’d shoot a blind man?” Lex asked, feigning shock and awe. If he’d had the space, he might have even dramatically clasped a hand to his chest. “I’m appalled.” At her question, Lex perked up and tried to piece together a mental visualization. “Right. It should stretch the length of the building.” Which still wasn’t<span style="font-style: italic">technically</span>the way they needed to go, but it should drop them out close enough that getting home wouldn’t be an issue. The most unfortunate thing about it was that he had no way of gauging exactly what the length of the building was; he had no idea how long they were going to stay in these metal heattraps. What he<span style="font-style: italic">did</span>know was that he felt as close to hell as he felt comfortable to getting today.<br/><br/>He supposed that they should probably start thinking two or three steps ahead, start plotting out what they would do after they got Marcus. Or what they would do if they got to the house and Marcus wasn’t there, or he was there and<span style="font-style: italic">dead</span>, or any number of horrible scenarios that Lex could come up with. “We have guns at the house,” he remembered aloud. His father had<span style="font-style: italic">insisted</span>on it. The guns were few, but they were hidden everywhere; in the living room, in the master bedroom, hidden behind specific baseboards in the kitchen,<span style="font-style: italic">everywhere.</span>The extra security was about all the man had been good for, and even then, they’d never had to touch the things so they were kept squirreled away. “Food, too, at least enough for a few days.”<br/><br/>Okay, Lex, guns and food were great, but they were useless without somewhere safe to enjoy them. “I still think that the munitions warehouse is our best option. They’ve got a fence. Thick walls, probably a storage bunker underground. Beds.” He rattled off his reasoning, but he wasn’t sure if he was trying to convince Blue or himself. Realians had been military property, so surely they knew how to get inside a medium-security facility that had all of its electronic security precautions disabled. No where was truly safe, but that might be as safe as it got.