[ Prompto's move works β the soldier staggers back as blood leaks through the armour and Peggy tumbles free to the ground, knocking into an end table in her haste to get away and gasping through her mask when pain lances fresh and white-hot through her left. She doesn't let it slow her down, grabbing her gun from the floor and hauling herself upright with an effort, meeting face to face with Prompto. ]
We can't leave her, [ she says, of the dead agent not three feet from their position. They can still bring her back at one of the safehouses. Death doesn't have to be permanent and she can't have been down longer than a minute or two before they arrived on the scene. ] You take one, I'll take the other.
[ Not the first time she's had to haul a body off a battlefield under fire. God, just like the war. ]
Go, I'll cover you.
[ She lets off a barrage of shots at the remaining UNA, aiming for the joints, vulnerable cracks in the armour left by the hail of fire. Hopefully it'll buy enough time for Prompto to grab one agent or the other, and once she's confident he's making his way out, she'll follow.
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We can't leave her, [ she says, of the dead agent not three feet from their position. They can still bring her back at one of the safehouses. Death doesn't have to be permanent and she can't have been down longer than a minute or two before they arrived on the scene. ] You take one, I'll take the other.
[ Not the first time she's had to haul a body off a battlefield under fire. God, just like the war. ]
Go, I'll cover you.
[ She lets off a barrage of shots at the remaining UNA, aiming for the joints, vulnerable cracks in the armour left by the hail of fire. Hopefully it'll buy enough time for Prompto to grab one agent or the other, and once she's confident he's making his way out, she'll follow.
She promises. ]