Davis: Yes sir. We’ll get onto it straight away.

The Sergeant turns and walks away, nodding to Riley and Shearer to follow. They have been listening at a respectable distance and know the plan. The night would be long and they look at each other as they prepare themselves to go back out into the wild of the city.

The screams from outside are only broken occasionally by bursts of gunfire and the panicked cries for help that usually follow. Whatever barricades that kept them alive until now, finally giving way under the weight of bodies and scratching nails tearing away at them.

Steve wakes up in the bunk. His mind must have grown bored again when he cry for mercy, and he thinks