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[Shayuri]

Oh crap, he's coming!

Cassandra starts to reel the camera back in when she sees Vic coming back. She manages a weak smile for him and says, "So...I guess it didn't go too..."

That's as far as she gets. Victor opens his mouth to cut her off angrily, and then the gym wall explodes.

The next thing Cass knows she's on her back on the pavement with Vic lying on top of her. For a dizzy instant she wonders if the blast threw him...then she realizes that he must have dived into her to shield her. Even though the explosion was quite a ways away...far too much so to pose any direct risk.

And she'd lost the camera to boot. It must have dropped to the ground in the bushes outside of the gym somewhere.

She patted Victor's back and squirmed out from under him. "I think it's okay. It's clear over at the gym."

God those poor kids. What do I do now?

And, of course, she had to get the camera back.

"Victor, I'm going over there," Cassandra said, and then quickly, so as not to give him time to argue, "Distract the police!"

Then she was off and running. Not directly towards the gym, which would be too obvious, but towards the library where she could get cover in the hedge that surrounded it...then make her way to the gym building across the quad, far enough from the police line that she might escape notice.