"Ah'm gonna shoot 'em," Calamity announced before picking up Spitfire's Thunder in his teeth and aiming it over the concrete railing of the overpass, taking aim for one of the hellhounds in the town below.

"No!" hissed Xenith, pushing Spitfire's Thunder with her hoof. "If you shoot them, then you will let them know we are here."

"Wait," Velvet Remedy started to suggest, but my focus was on Calamity and Xenith, and their focus was on each other.

Calamity started to say something through the gunbit, then put the weapon down to properly argue. "Ayep. Ah figure Ah c'n pick a couple off before they realize where the shots are comin' from, then more as they come outta those buildin's t' investigate. Let 'em come runnin' towards us. We got plenty o' space 'tween here an' there t' snipe them off in."

I was already pulling out my own sniper rifle, levitating my anesthetized body into an optimal sniping position.

"Littlepip, wait!" Velvet said, but her next words were cut off by our zebra companion.

"Are you fools?" Xenith trotted in place. "This is not how you behave in enemy territory. Our enemy outnumbers us. And these are not stupid raiders, but clever opponents. You do not engage them wantonly."

Calamity cocked his head. "An' what would ya have us do? Hide an' sneak?"

"Yes," Xenith nodded firmly. "Be alert, move fast, keep downwind and to the shadows. Avoid them whenever possible. Kill only those we cannot avoid, and do so swiftly and silently."

Calamity looked to me, "Ah say we take out what we c'n while we c'n do so from a distance. Less o' them means less t' worry 'bout fightin' up close."

Xenith sighed, stepping between Calamity and me, facing him. "Listen to me. I have watched you. You are a hunter. You know how to hunt. But do you know how to be prey?"

Calamity took a step back, lifting the bug-eyed visor of his Enclave armor to stare back at her directly. "Ah ain't got no interest in bein' prey."

"Well, I have spent most of my life as prey. And I know how to survive when you are outnumbered and chased," Xenith informed him. "Perhaps you should listen.

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