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Selena: HP = 48, PP = 38, EP = 38, Status = Fine
In the blink of an eye, it had all ended.
The Necropolis, long standing seat of the Lich King, had fallen. The brunt of the invasion felt like it had occurred in minutes rather than hours. The aliens had descended from their huge, living crafts and fallen upon a city that was more unprepared than it ever believed itself capable of being. Unlike Badarian culture, the invaders did not differentiate between poor or rich. Noble and commoner alike had been slaughtered, enslaved, or worse following their coming. Selena's friends, both those from her day and night life, had all been treated the same.
For a time, there had been pockets of resistance. A prepared noble here, an act of unexpected heroism there, and even the occasional group of peasants who refused to go down without a fight. That was over now, it had been over since before Selena even managed to escape her own fate. Any substantial force was already broken or had already escaped the city. The aliens patrolled the streets as if they belonged there, fully claiming the city for their own. They raped the survivors in the streets until they were filled to bursting with seed and sure to spawn more of the foul things in mere hours, then repeated the cycle over again until their victims were broken and warped.
It had been less than a week since the nightmare had started. For all she knew, Selena might be the only sane survivor in the city. She was constantly in a state of hiding, well aware of the fate she would be returned to if she was caught. The noblewoman's course through the ruins had taken her in the general direction of one of the gates out of the city, but she was heavily delayed by the omnipresent patrols and had frequently needed to hide in a building. Almost in vision of the gatehouse, she had found herself in that situation yet again.
Dusk was quickly approaching when the stealthy survivor had found herself needing to duck into a small general store in order to avoid a group of the lizardmen. It was a single floor building. The door was to the left, facing the building, of a large display window with shelves behind it and it offered access to a single large room. Beyond that, there were several shelves forming aisles through the room, though everything of value had already been scavenged, leaving only useless knickknacks to be found. The sales counter sat in front of a closed door at the other end of the room.
Fortunately, the display window had been boarded up, likely by some survivors before her, and so she was able to quickly shuffle in through the doorway, the door of which was missing from its hinges, and out of sight undetected before they passed by. She was even able to watch from the edge of the opening as they continued past the building, apparently never suspecting a thing.
Before she left the building to continue her trek, however, she heard a stifled sobbing coming from beyond the door behind the sales counter. In addition, she could hear faint sounds of consolation. It had been the first time she'd heard the noises of other humans in days, and it might have been other survivors. At the same time, it might have been a trick played by the aliens. It was up to Selena to decide how to handle it.