Elaine laughed so hard her shoulders trembled, the lingering heaviness of the aberrant meat she had eaten earlier shifting unpleasantly in her stomach.
The situation was absurd to her. Piggy, of all people, is hesitating to pull the trigger. It should have been simple. It had always been simple for them.
And yet here she was, still breathing.
It irritated her more than anything.
Before she could push further, a gunshot rang from the hallway near the stairs, sharp and sudden enough to cut through the tension in the room. Both of them turned their heads at the same time.
"Go. Clean that up," Piggy said without raising her voice, glancing at the man behind her.
He obeyed immediately, stepping out to bark a few orders at the others before returning as if nothing had happened. The calmness of it all only confirmed what Elaine already knew.
'Gideon,' she thought, her lips curling slightly. 'You really can't sit still for a second, can you?'
That meant her time was limited.
