Nat shoved the other woman between two of the pillars set at intervals along the stone walls. In pairs, a deep gap was set between them, just wide enough for the two of them to squeeze into but not wide enough for anyone to get in after them. Anyone trying to get to them had to come at them from the front only, which meant she only had one direction to defend.
“Kill anyone who gets past me,” she ordered over her shoulder as she took position in the "entrance," the staff held lightly in her hands.
“If… if anyone gets past you?” Melissa whimpered.
“I’ll be dead,” Nat snapped. “And you’ll need to get with the f*****g program and make sure it doesn’t happen to you. Okay?”
She didn’t get chance to listen to Melissa’s reply if she made one because one of the aliens stepped in front of the ga
