The barricade hadn't raised much suspicion at first. Even the faint carrying sounds that might have been human hadn't seemed so out of the ordinary. Such things happened in Blight-struck places. Ellis had assumed it was a cluster of ghouls, trapped and forgotten as the catastrophe had grown worse.
It would have been so much simpler, had that been the case.
"We can't leave them."
Though even saying as much lays the way for the obvious question: what shall be done with them?
It is cruel to burn the house with these people in it. It is dangerous to leave them in this place still drawing breath and untouched. There are arguments carrying on still from within the house, black-veined faces passing at the window, but what matters is what they decide to do here.
"And we can't leave that man to continue as he has been. There's a chance the rest outlast him," Ellis continues, before looking from Vance to Teren, Edgard and Lucien momentarily disregarded. "We should clear away the door and let me go in."
Does he need to be explicit about what he will be doing inside the house? Probably not.
pile in for arguments.
It would have been so much simpler, had that been the case.
"We can't leave them."
Though even saying as much lays the way for the obvious question: what shall be done with them?
It is cruel to burn the house with these people in it. It is dangerous to leave them in this place still drawing breath and untouched. There are arguments carrying on still from within the house, black-veined faces passing at the window, but what matters is what they decide to do here.
"And we can't leave that man to continue as he has been. There's a chance the rest outlast him," Ellis continues, before looking from Vance to Teren, Edgard and Lucien momentarily disregarded. "We should clear away the door and let me go in."
Does he need to be explicit about what he will be doing inside the house? Probably not.