The man in front clearly didn't expect Emery to have reacted so quickly or even attacked in the first place. They assumed that a chef would be a non-fighter or unwilling to make the first move.
Even Kyle who was behind him and Dillon didn't expect that he would make the first move so quickly.
Only Elyn remained the same.
And that was one thing people seemed to get wrong about him. Just because he was a chef and because he didn't want to kill didn't mean that he wouldn't make the first move. In the end, they were still in the apocalypse.
It was kill or be killed. Survival of the fittest.
'I won't kill, but I can't let myself get pushed around either.'
The spindly man in front coughed slightly, then spread both arms out in a confident gesture. He wore tattered clothes that somehow formed a harmonious cloak around his body. It looked like something that would be worn in the desert.
