"Can't you go any faster?!" Peter shouted through his batted breath while rushing down the street at the greatest speed he could reach.
"I can," Leila replied leisurely only to leap forward, appearing ahead of the man in a mere instant. She then turned around without breaking her pace only to start running backward as if it was some sort of school exercise. "Can you keep up with me, though?"
The two of them were rushing back to Peter's base for the same reason why the rest of the fighters within Mathew's group were rushing to their own locations of deployment.
And it was all to prevent the incoming horde from doing any substantial damage to any of the survivors' bases.
"I…" Peter opened his mouth, only to then close it shut… and open it again when the strenuous exercise of running at his top speed forced him to keep breathing through his mouth. "Nevermind," he then said, lowering his eyes and focusing on the run rather than the talk.
