Chapter 1.5 - All

Donovan a sawed off double barrel, little worse for wear but it appears functional near the exit he spotted. Creeping out from beneath the wreck he can hear someone, maybe two, coming up from behind him as someone gets yanked skyward. A couple of very loud rifle shots echo through the canyon and whoever is coming up behind him stops suddenly.
Easing into the shot Napoleon watches the two prisoners disappear up towards the skyship. He exhales and pulls the trigger, a very loud shot rings across the canyon and the soldiers entire right arms separates from his shoulder. The man looks about shocked for a moment before collapsing to the ground.

A second very loud shot also rings out and the soldiers near the prisoners take cover.
Ruby looks at Harris and then at the French woman and then back at Harris, "I do not know sir."

She puts the woman’s over the bandage and the piece of metal, the woman’s eyes go a little wide as she looks down.

"Nous devons aller maîtresse," Ruby says quietly getting around and putting the woman’s arm over her shoulder, "tout de suite." Then she helps the woman to her feet, Harris watches as what little colour there was drains from her face but she remains quiet.

"I am so sorry Miss." Ruby says apologetically.

Two more very loud gunshot ring out over the gorge.
Nathaniel squeezes the trigger, there’s a thunderous roar that fills his ears as the man in the uniform collapses.

There are 2 soldiers who have moved from the far end of the wreckage (west end) to where the remaining 1 prisoner is, there was still 1 remaining soldier where the prisoner is, and 2 soldiers have moved from the prisoner location through the wreckage towards where the shooting was earlier. All of the soldiers have taken cover now and unslung their rifles.
Peeking about from his hidden location Donovan can see a single man in a uniform with a rifle, he’s in an exposed location from where he is and is clearly scanning the canyon side above him where the train appears to have come from. He knows there was a second set of footsteps but he doesn’t see a second man.
Looking about Nathaniel spots three people moving through the wreckage towards the darkness and possible safety of up canyon, there’s large boulders and no fire up that way, Nathaniel thinks two of the people are women by their silhouettes and the third must be a man.
"It is just Ruby sir, I am not a Miss sir," she’s got one arm around the French woman and has her arm over her shoulder.

Harris looks about and doesn’t see anyone but there is a reasonable path out of the wreckage and into a large group of boulders in the darkness beyond.

The Frenchwoman inhales sharply as Ruby stumbles trying to make her way around a large piece of wreckage, "I am so sorry Miss so sorry."

"C'est bien chéri," the Frenchwoman puts a bloody hand on Ruby’s cheek and smiles weakly, "je ne te blâme pas."

The rock clatters between a pair or boulders to the soldiers right, he turns his head slightly to look but keeps his rifle trained up slope. "Gunnar, Was machst du gerade?"

A second voice to his left answers, "Ich war es nicht."

The soldier you can see rotates his rifle and body around slowly.
The one woman who appears to be a maid, black dress, white apron, hair mostly tied up in a small white kerchief, stops suddenly her eyes are wide as saucers, there’s a large bloody hand print on her cheek. She is clearly incredibly frightened and holding things together by just a thread. The maid is supporting a woman in a blue and white dress with long red hair that was probably once up but has since become undone. The woman looks pale and barely capable of remaining on her feet. On the other side of the woman in blue and white is a tall thin man, dressed quite dapperly, black suit, tie, expensive white shirt. He appears dirty and battered but otherwise healthy.
"Please sir," the maid says clutching the injured woman closer, "do not hurt us, sir, I beg of you."

"Ruby, Vous êtes plutôt jolie quand vous avez peur," the injured woman says with a weak smile.

"Now is not the time Miss."

"Je suix meurs ma chère, il n'y a pas d'autre moment."

"Don’t be so dramatic, you’re not dying Miss."***

Somewhere above the canyon a voice booms out, "Kehre in die Liftzone zurück und bereite dich auf das Bombardement vor." Four bright spotlights appear in the sky and begin moving slowly across the canyon floor.

Napoleon and Donovan both notice the soldiers fall back quicky towards the middle of the wreck. Napoleon can see that they’re headed towards where the prisoner is being held, Donovan can not.

"That sounds bad," Ruby whispers, "that sounds very bad."