[ Chaos breaks out, and Alan feels an icy hand take hold of him: the icy hand of fear. But there's no time for being paralyzed by fear, not when people around him are fighting and being driven back by the Taken that arrive. It's less arriving and more swarming, and these Taken are angry. Relentless. The Dark Presence wants to drive all of them from Bright Falls, and if it can't do that, well, then it seems hell-bent on killing all of them.
Alan fires round after round, alternating with burning away the darkness with his flashlight. He's had to stop to reload more than once, and it's when he stops that he becomes vulnerable. But even though he doesn't lower his guard, it seems that luck, or something like it is on his side... at least for now.
More waves come as the sky gradually starts to lighten. Alan fell into a sort of rhythm of burning Taken with the flashlight and bringing them down with bullets. He only got knocked off that rhythm once when he got taken by a surprise by a knife being thrown by an oncoming Taken. It caught him on the forehead, leaving a decently sized gash, but he didn't have time to stop to deal with it, as now he had two of them on his hands.
But by the time dawn comes and what remains of the Taken slowly recede back into the darkness of the trees and whatever cover they can find, Alan knows he's one of the lucky ones who made it out alive. A fight like this has to have casualties. It's something he's not looking forward to seeing, but there's no running from it either.
Steve pats him on the back, and he gives the ranger a nod as he moves to follow him. Once they enter the station, Alan's expression turns grim. He might not know all the faces of the dead, but a life is still a life. They have families and friends and aspirations, and all of that is at an end. Alan's fist clenches even as he continues following Steve.
He doesn't say anything as Estevez and Steve exchange words. At least Estevez is still standing, as is Samuels. But there's other faces they haven't seen yet, and there's one face in particular that Alan wants to see.
But it's not Jesse that they run into; instead, it's a Taken who doesn't seem to want to give up easily. Luckily, Steve is good at reading the situation, and Alan knows how to react quickly enough, so between the two of them, they dispatch the Taken just in time to hear Casey calling out. ]
Yeah... he kind of is, but- [ Alan shrugs. It feels like any prickliness on Casey's part is understandable, given the situation they're in. ] I'd be prickly too if I got dragged into this mess. [ He glances sidelong at Steve. ] I don't know how you manage to always seem so relaxed, even when things are bad.
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Alan fires round after round, alternating with burning away the darkness with his flashlight. He's had to stop to reload more than once, and it's when he stops that he becomes vulnerable. But even though he doesn't lower his guard, it seems that luck, or something like it is on his side... at least for now.
More waves come as the sky gradually starts to lighten. Alan fell into a sort of rhythm of burning Taken with the flashlight and bringing them down with bullets. He only got knocked off that rhythm once when he got taken by a surprise by a knife being thrown by an oncoming Taken. It caught him on the forehead, leaving a decently sized gash, but he didn't have time to stop to deal with it, as now he had two of them on his hands.
But by the time dawn comes and what remains of the Taken slowly recede back into the darkness of the trees and whatever cover they can find, Alan knows he's one of the lucky ones who made it out alive. A fight like this has to have casualties. It's something he's not looking forward to seeing, but there's no running from it either.
Steve pats him on the back, and he gives the ranger a nod as he moves to follow him. Once they enter the station, Alan's expression turns grim. He might not know all the faces of the dead, but a life is still a life. They have families and friends and aspirations, and all of that is at an end. Alan's fist clenches even as he continues following Steve.
He doesn't say anything as Estevez and Steve exchange words. At least Estevez is still standing, as is Samuels. But there's other faces they haven't seen yet, and there's one face in particular that Alan wants to see.
But it's not Jesse that they run into; instead, it's a Taken who doesn't seem to want to give up easily. Luckily, Steve is good at reading the situation, and Alan knows how to react quickly enough, so between the two of them, they dispatch the Taken just in time to hear Casey calling out. ]
Yeah... he kind of is, but- [ Alan shrugs. It feels like any prickliness on Casey's part is understandable, given the situation they're in. ] I'd be prickly too if I got dragged into this mess. [ He glances sidelong at Steve. ] I don't know how you manage to always seem so relaxed, even when things are bad.