Chaz looked down at herself, her clothes covered in a blanket of dust left from the collapsed building. "It would be good to wash off. The middle school isn't too far if you cut across westward like so...but you are right. With IT around it could be too risky...especially as there are more of us now. On your own the journey is easy..but with 5 people..not to mention you.." She stroked the dog's ears as he sat down beside her. "I would hate to have any of us put in needless danger."