Madeline decides to make a break for it.

Madeline decides to make a break for it, human preservation and fear overwhelm her as she begins to see her companions fall. Bullets wiz all around but she finds a break in the ring of enclosing Powder Gangers.

She hammers away with the last few rounds in her magazine. Then takes off running. A sudden explosion rocks her to one side and she falls. A blast of accursed dynamite nearly shook her teeth loose. She gets to her feet and runs as fast as she can down a rocky slop dodging and darting this way and that. The sounds begin to fade as she ran till she made it behind a large rocky outcrop.

"Fuck" she says to herself as she notices that her left her pistol. Dropped from when she was rocked by the explosion. But she was alive, and the mission still had a chance.

She headed north, tears smearing her face as she considered her friends and what would become of them.