| [Jan. 12th, 2011|08:21 pm] |
Sharp eyes scanned the houses, the fireline, the forest. She twisted and looked back the way they'd come, at an entire clan ground, houses with families and children, wrapped up in flammable wood. Try to save those that were already burning, stop the screams she could hear shadowing flame, or save everyone else?
The houses on the edges were beginning to smoulder, but people were still able to come pouring out of them. The official clan head, Kanaye, was nowhere to be seen. Probably already at the dinner they were late to. It made her job easier, at least; there wouldn't be a power struggle.
"Kuromaru!"
He looked up at her, half blind and all fighter.
"Take Asuma. You know which houses have cubs?"
He nodded once.
"Get them out." She turned to Asuma, looking at up him where he was silhouetted by firelight. "Yasuo took rescue teams west. Go east, start at the houses you can get into and pull out any of the kids trapped. Kuromaru will show you where. I'm going to evacuate here and make a firebreak. You're physically the strongest person around, and the most likely to free the cubs. Go quickly." It was, at the moment, all she could do. The rest of the clan had to be saved first. No matter how badly it tore at her to leave the people screaming.
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