First she was gold, then she was blue, then red. Foran's mind as expansive as it seemed at times going from one idea to the next, could not wrap itself around what had happened. She was on the ground and he fell to his knees still hiding the child’s face with his claw. Putting his hand on her chest not in sexual way but to see if there was anything left in her, any heart beat, anything. Her head was gone and some of her shoulders with it. The blood was all over his hands and few feathers clung to his hands from her corpse.<br/><br/>It must have been an odd sight to see a zombie cry.<br/><br/><i>“Get him alive, kill the child” </i>He heard dimly, instinct forced him to stand put his eyes didn't leave the body for what felt like hours but could only have been seconds. The mind had a funny way of doing that, a chemical goes to your brain that makes time seem slower, it's so you have more reaction time, though it only happens at truly terrifying moments in your life and lets you study every detail. His eyes met that of the general. The gun still pointed Foran moved only just enough that the next shot he fired missed The mass of soldiers already starting to move in on him.<br/><br/>If not for Twinkle in his arms he would have liked to die there, but he turned and ran, he wasn't a fool and ran right for the edge of a platform, he stopped and looked down, below him was another floor too far for him to just jump, He was his chance however and jumped nearly pulling his arm out of socket by grabbing onto the edge of the floor he was once standing on. He dropped from that onto a branch below and from there a farther drop than he would have liked onto the roof of a building, which gave out under his wight and that of the little girl.<br/><br/>Thinking he twisted his ankle as he landed he wanted to just sit there, though time was not on his side. He got up and looked around using what little energy he had left to focus on moving rather than the pain in his more than likely broken leg.<br/><br/>They wanted him alive, he thought about this opening the door of the building and running, through the pain of his broken leg, down the streets.<b>“I'll get us out of here little one”</b>Muttering into his arms where he still held the hopefully unaware girl. They wanted him alive and it killed him to know that. He was brought to his thoughts about why this had happened, They wanted him. These people died since he was here. But why? Why were they after him of all people? “Gah” he scoffed and turned to the wall of one building starting to climb the tree, using only one arm and one foot was hard enough, but with the thought that at any moment a green ball of fire could kill you it was getting harder to hold on to anything. He made it to the top of the house and realized just much distance he had covered, even if the general had chased him over the edge with the fire and broken buildings along with bodies that littered the streets it would have been hard to spot him.<br/><br/>Sitting on top of the building he hugged the little girl like she was a teddy bear. Tears still stung his eyes. He checked her over and gave her a small smile then quickly hid her back in his arms. He watched as the soldiers tried to find him, He was ducking behind the back wall of the building now. Having no where to go he hand off by one arm holding the girl with the other his swollen ankle throbbing after the effort of running on it.<br/><br/>Boats. He had seen boats, when he was at the landing area, he had seen a river and boats that ran along it, He was closer than the rest of the group. Maybe he could make it? In his hand he still held five gold feathers two stained with blood. He would have to make it. Dropping himself onto the wood and using the fire and some bushes as cover the Ramen made his way to a less open area that the forces had already cleared through, he would be able to make a cut through a few houses and limp his through torn bushes and burning logs. All the while not being able to get the thought of the woman, Sparkle, out of his head.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>