[The only thing keeping them from being overrun is the runes on the walls, and the fact that the sun has to rise. Calls go up along the wall: keep them back and hold steady 'til morning!, but there's people out there on the road, people like she and Dimitri had been.

Just trying to make it to safety, one way or another. If they can break this charge, then maybe--they have to try. So she peers into the dark, scanning the heads for anything.]

I don't think they have a rank system. [Her eyes narrow. It's bare skull after bare skull out there. The occasional helm or cap, but nothing to designate leadership. They probably don't need a leader when they're this driven and mindless. They're almost like Cie'th in that respect.] Not anymore. We could take the whole line out and they'd keep coming.

[Even if it meant walking over their fallen comrades to do it. She grits her teeth.]

We need a better plan.