Lorica falls on the Young Avengers
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Sure, she can play courier. And she's not running the whole way, but she doesn't get exhausted easily, so it's not too inefficient.

She does jog a little, enjoying stretching herself, and enjoying looking around while she's actually dressed for the weather.

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There's a scream from the woods over thataway!

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...Well.

She rests her hand on her sword and jogs a bit closer to the scream, moving cautiously, keeping an eye on her surroundings.

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Sounds like a woman, up over that ridge there. The woods look normal, snowy, not recently disturbed - nope, there's tracks, there.

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Human-ish?

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Yup, human stride length and foot size, in the local sort of boots.

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She heads towards the ridge, aiming to get a good view.

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She is not in time to save the woman. There's a pack of probably-zombies-or-something on her, and she no longer screams.

There's five - well, six, now - zombies.

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She's mostly concealed, peaking around the edge of a rock, moving mostly quietly - have they noticed her yet?

(She has a gun - she's not one of the stupid supers who think the things are anathema - but only so many bullets for it. She has a sword, but six infectious opponents might cause trouble... She has super strength and rocks, though, if she can get difficult-to-assail high ground...)

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The zombies don't see her right away. They keep biting the new one, perhaps for redundancy, and then lurch in the direction the tracks lead, but don't look up.

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She wants a fight but she's not stupid...

She loops away from the tracks, trying to figure out a path that gets her out of here if the zombies don't notice her and gets her somewhere defensible if they do.

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There's a big glacial erratic over there with a nearly sheer side.

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Just about perfect.

She heads over to it - scaling something that cold's unpleasant but the air'd have to be deadly to normal humans before Jian gets frostbite, so, she's not too concerned about taking her gloves off so her fingers grip better as she scrambles up.

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The zombies hear her, but don't speed up, just look in her direction and angle that way.

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She starts looking for good-sized rocks to chunk at them.

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There are pebbles up there but nothing bigger than a ping pong ball.

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Blegh. Good paths away from here?

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Trail uphill, path downhill - not paved or stairstepped but reasonably consistent grade and no shrubbery in either direction for a ways.

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She risks getting trapped going uphill - downhill it is, fast, she's not a speedster but she can maintain the sorts of speeds usually only seen in the Olympics for superhuman times.

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The zombies plod on after her.

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If they're plodding she's probably going to put distance between her and them fast - she keeps an eye out for better defensible positions, places to shake them or ways to separate them so she can fight or get high ground and disposable weapons - keeps mental track of where the road is -

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They might be speeding up now, actually.

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This is annoying.

Her gun doesn't have a silencer, but if these ones die it won't matter if everything around her hears this, she'll be able to get back to the road and shake other pursuit -

She finds a sturdy, high up place to use as a firing platform, and almost idly waits for them to cross her sights.

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There's one!

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She's no Hawkeye, but she's good enough to get a head shot at this distance.

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