"What is this?" Alicia questions, looking through a box to the left of the couch.
"As I told you before, a few things I've picked up that spoke to me," Elyza mumbles, her arm thrown across her eyes as she tries to get a small nap in before they have to move.
"Can I keep this?"
"Keep what sky girl?"
"The candles, can I keep the candles? We're running low on them back at our place," Alicia looks at the candles, the old wax white with age.
"I will bring them with us on our journey to your home, Alicia Clark," Elyza says, sitting up, giving on on trying to sleep.
"Why do you speak so weird?" Alicia questions the blonde.
"That is a tale for another time, let us be going. You said your base is near the docks, yes?"
"Yeah, a house right on the water," Alicia nods, tucking the candles into her book bag.
"Here, see if you can see it," the blonde offers a pair of small binoculars.
"Alright," the brunette mumbles, taking the binoculars and looking out, trying to find their new home.
"I see it, the black house right there," Alicia points, handing the binoculars back to their blonde owner.
"Hmm," she hums, nodding.
"What? Is there a problem?"
"We have to go underground to get there safely. It is dark underground, I do not know how you will handle it."
Alicia scoffs, "I can handle anything."
Elyza's blue eyes travel the body of the stranger, taking in her fitness.
"I suppose you are correct, much more than you know," she says, putting the small binoculars back into her pocket.
"You're kinda weird Elyza," Alicia states, watching as she dips her fingers into a black tar like substance, outlining blue eyes with black.
"It's from another life," she mumbles, checking the clip in her gun.
"You know, I almost believe you," she chuckles, a small smile playing across her face.
Blue eyes flick down to the grin, resting on her lips.
"You smile a lot more now. It's nice to see you smile," Elyza nods, pulling her machete out and making sure it's clean.
"You're odd."
"You're special Alicia," Elyza states, their eyes connecting briefly as a flicker of something plays across Alicia's mind, but it's gone too fast, dismissed as a out of place feeling. Elyza blames the flicker on the light from the rising sun, but hopes for it to be something more.
"Let us be going. There is an opening to the underground not far from here, two blocks down there is a manhole."
"Sounds simple enough," the brunette says, standing up and cracking her knuckles.
"The dead like to walk around there, so it will not be simple. You need to stay close to me Alicia."
"Sounds like a plan to me," Alicia nods, walking over to the ladder.
"No," Elyza grabs her arm, turning it while bringing her back, earning a yelp of pain from the girl.
"I go first. If anything goes wrong you run as fast as you can. Don't try to save me, alright? I'm here to protect you," she orders, releasing her arms when she gets a nod.
Elyza grits her teeth, calming herself, as she slides down the ladder, offering a hand to Alicia to help her down to the platform. The blonde then jumps off the platform, rolling safely to the side before standing and watching Alicia carefully hop onto the car, then climb down.
"You're slow space girl," the blonde notes, walking down the alleyway.
Alicia rolls her eyes, saying silent and following Elyza. A low groan of the undead makes them both freeze, watching as a few run past the opening to the road, running towards something.
"Where are they going?" Alicia questions, her hand grabbing the back of Elyza's shirt.
"No idea, but it's a great distraction," she mumbles, drawing her sword and walking slowly to the opening.
"What if it's my family?" Alicia whispers.
"Then I'll come back for them, after I make sure you're safe," she growls, turning the corner while slashing the head of a poor walker that happened to be there.
"I need my family Elyza," she whines, her hand loosening its hold on Elyza's shirt.
"Alicia, I swear to you, I will keep you safe and get you back to your family. Just let me do it, okay?"
Alicia bites her bottom lip, looking towards where the dead are rushing to, but she sees nothing. She is pushed into the side of a car before she can think, Elyza's hand connecting the the face of a walker who snuck up behind them, throwing the dead to the ground and stomping its head in.
"We need to go," she whispers, grabbing Alicia's arm and pulling her towards their destination.
"Alicia!"
Both girls turn towards the voice, Alicia already ready to run towards it.
"Mom!" Alicia yells, taking off towards the roof her mother is on top of.
"Alicia," Elyza grunts as she pulls the girl back by the flannel around her waist, and uses her machete to slice into a walker to their right, who was reaching for Alicia.
"Alicia, stay safe! We are coming to you!" Maddie yells from the roof, moving to get off it.
"No! We will come to you!" Elyza shouts, her arm wrapping around Alicia, guiding her to their right as she cuts the head off of a dead to their left.
"Come on, now's time to run," the blonde mumbles, her hand grabbing Alicia's and pulling her into a sprint.
"I was trying to do this before!" Alicia grunts for air.
"I hate running," Elyza sums, turning her body for a second, sending a shot between the eyes of their closest chaser from the gun that was on her hip seconds ago.
"You're crazy good at that," the brunette mumbles.
"I trained. Jump that fence!"
They both jump, Elyza sliding right over.
"Help!" Alicia yelps, fear overcoming her as her flannel got caught.
Elyza, instead of pulling Alicia over, jumps back over, landing right next to a walker.
"Shit," Elyza grunts as it lunges at her, knocking her to the ground.
"Elyza!" Alicia yelps.
"Get over the damn fence space girl!" she orders, her elbow connecting with the dead's temple, sending the brain across the herself and the ground to her right.
"Elyza, come on!" Alicia says from the other side of the fence.
"Right behind you," she says, rolling out of the reach of the newest walker and scaling the fence like it's nothing.
"Alicia! Thank God!"
Alicia is pulled into a hug, which she completely surrenders to, as it is her mother.
"I'm sorry we went so far out Mom," she mumbles, tears falling as she clings.
"Shh baby, it's alright," Maddie soothes, her hand running through dark locks.
The snarl of a walker breaks the reunion up.
"We need to go," Elyza states, the walker's head already separate from it's body.
"The car is just out front, are you coming with us?" Maddie questions.
"I'll make sure you make it," she says, leading the way.
Luckily, there are no walkers around as they round the house.
"You're safe now, right?" Elyza questions Alicia as they near the car.
"Yeah, thank you," Alicia nods, her eyes finding the ground.
"Alright. May we meet again," she says, offering her hand.
Green eyes find blue, something once again flying across them, but this time Elyza can't blame it on the rising sun, but Alicia still can't name it.
"Come with us."
"What?"
"Come with me. You said you knew me in a past life, so become a part of this one."
The blonde's lips tilt upwards slightly, then fall back into their neutral position.
"I will come and keep you safe," she nods, following the teen into the car.
Nobody hears her whisper "unlike I do later."