Ridley/Storm/Penelope/Cid/OPEN?
The lightning crashed before her, starting the zombie, but not herself. She wasn't worried about her own safety, but that of the children. Penny was quite pleased that the boy had reacted so swiftly, picking up the girl and moving her away from the threat. She put herself between the zombies and them in an attempt to slow them down if nothing else. The mystic shouldn't have been so close, but she wasn't thinking clearly. There was something about seeing the scholar on the floor that clicked inside of her.
She ignored all the questions she could answer later and was about to instruct Cid to follow when he hit one of the zombie's with his staff and rather hard. "NO!" The one she'd bewitched was quickly knocked out of its revery after the strike and turned to grab onto Cid as he attempted to ask Penny a question. Without thinking, she shoved him out of the way, finding herself in the grasp of the creature and a sword run through her.
There was a choked sound and she looked down at the wound. "Heh," she said with a smile. It then pushed her away onto the ground, where she attempted to put her hand over it, but she could already feel the blood seeping through her fingers and staining the back of her dress. "Hehe..." She was going to get killed by something that was already dead. How was that not funny? Somewhere in the back of her mind, she knew this was an inappropriate reaction. She just didn't care. "Run," she told him as the knight raised his sword to finish her off.