Erica tried to jump awya again, and would have been sucsessful had James not fallen over mid-attack. Its claw tore through Erica's left arm, tearing out a sizable amount of muscle tissue.
She screamed in agony, her arm now langing uselessly besides her, unable to be moved as many of the tendons had been cut. It was a miracle her arm had not been torn off.
Erica could no longer ignore the reality. James was lost.
Once the mutant lashed out again, Erica jumped back, sucsessfully this time. Then, momentarily closed her eyes as tears ran down her cheecks. [sub]"Forgive me..."[/sub]
She aimed the pistol at the mutant's bulging eye, holding it as steady as posible with but a single arm, and fired three rounds at it.
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Alicia once again firmly grabbed Tophat by the shoulders and shook him about. No! Do not do this! Do not give in to this panic!
Stay with me, damn it!
[sub]I had hoped I would not need to resort to this...[/sub] What would Erica say if she were to learn you were just giving up? Do you want to do that to her?!