[CupcakeDolly]

Rue kept her sword raised, but allowed the others to risk themselves at the front of the crowd. How her legs were still able to hold her weight upright she didn't know, but somehow she had come this far through the battle intact and with enough strength to keep standing.

She was eyeing the passage behind her, wondering if it would be opportune for her at the moment to escape into it, when she heard screaming. Whipping around, she glimpsed Lev just as he ran headlong into a crowd of moving corpses. Rue sighed and ran forward once more.

Cutting through bodies, stumbling over severed limbs, dodging claws and teeth - the only advantage the girl had working for her was that most of the creatures were focused on the screaming madman at the center of the crowd. With that card played, she dispatched several of them without them seeming to take notice. It didn't last long, however. Her left arm - which already had a stream of blood trickling from her exposed tattoo - felt teeth. Rue cried out and slashed the body from the head that had bitten her, and furiously reached a bloodied hand out to pull her supposed bodyguard away from the significantly smaller mob.