Something whizzed by and pinged overhead. Cesiah quickly ducked down lower behind her hastily erected barricade. "Missed me again! Too high! You'd think Corgi knot-gobblers would be used to aiming low!" she yelled back.
Despite her bravado, this little corner of The Great Uprising was not going well. They'd been at a stalemate for hours, neither side able to go anywhere else. Good for the Revolution, since she was keeping a whole bunch of them pinned down here. Bad for Cesiah, since she'd trapped herself in here along with them.
The contents of her ratty old duffel rattled when she rifled through it, her hand checking every single piece of weaponry she had left. Every mag of ammo. Good. Still overflowing with departing gifts for the other side.
Given everything, Cesiah figured circumstances could be a lot worse too. She'd be able to hold out here in this hallway for the rest of the day, if need be — and if those damn royalists didn't bring out Her Royal Highness' heavy duty snail fork or whatever to dig her out of her little hidey-hole. "How're you doing, you... you Queenlickers? I can do this all day!"
"If that's the best you can come up with, you'll be dancing the three seconds jig for us soon, traitorous scum!" floated back.
The only real downside to her current situation was that she'd run out of anything to hydrate with ages ago. Big mistake. Her throat was dry and scratchy from trading insults more than bullets for the last few hours, and she'd kill for a bottle of ice cold Nukit, or even just plain room temperature water. It was a sweltering summer's day, and the fires her friends had started all over the Palace Of The Suns Everlasting weren't helping.
Another taunt was lobbed her way. "What's wrong, rebel yell? Corgi got your tongue?"
Cesiah was going to have to get something inside her soon, or this nagging throbbing behind her eye would bloom into a full blown migraine... And worst of all, her insults would get even weaker, meaning she'd lose the damn shouting match to a bunch of stuck up bootlickers in stupid wigs!