Ridley/Storm/Penelope/OPEN.
Penny had been running errands for Cid. She needed to grab a few things. Some he'd remember asking for, some things he forgot to ask her to grab in the first place. It wasn't uncommon for her to walk through the streets at night. She did so unafraid. She'd been through quite a lot and was certain that nothing anyone could do to her would ever compare to actual inability to move while drowning. She'd cheated death once, she could do it again.
The irony of it was that while she walked the streets, she could hear the scuffling. She was traveling mostly under the lamps of the street, but she could see them. They were moving quickly and closing in on the children. She watched as the boy took one down, but instead of standing tall, he lowered himself to a sliver on the ground. He was attempting to pour a potion into her mouth even as the others approached.
There was no thinking as she picked up her pace. The girl was down and the boy was distracted. She freed her book from her satchel, having dropped all other things. "Smash all who hunger for destruction.... Delirium!" She aimed toward the nearest monster. It paused for a moment in it's approach. It then turned and attempted to fight it's own. Regardless, more still approached. "Get her up," she said swinging her book hard to knock a zombie back to give them some room. "Hurry!"