"You need to move faster." A voice ordered. Kasumi jumped over a wooden spear as it jabbed at her legs and she countered with a jab of her own.
"Faster." The spear came again from the side this time and she ducked, the perfect angle for a low jab.
"Again." She felt the air stirring above her and rolled to her right just as the echoes of the spear hitting the floor bounced off the empty walls. The swishing wind told her the attacks weren't over yet and she got to her feet, giving her just enough time to jump once again as the spear jabbed at her legs.
"Good." A warm hand patted her on the head and she looked up with a smile.
"I got better, right?" She grinned.
"You need to move faster." The voice became distorted and she glanced up to see a face whose skin had begun rotting away.
Kasumi shot up and glanced around at her sleeping friends.
"Damn... I fell asleep..." She mumbled, glancing through small cracks in the ceiling to see the sky. Judging from the position of the clouds and sun since the last time she looked, she had only been asleep for about 20 minutes. She stood up and rubbed her eyes as she began walking towards her small pile of belongings. It wasn't much, just her modified spear, a single change of clothes that she kept clean at all times, a bag that all walkers were given, and a sniper rifle which wasn't much use without a silencer- which she had yet to get her hands on.
She picked up her bag and spear with a small sigh, habitually walking towards the same place she went every morning - the iron gates. Even if there wasn't a mission, she still liked to examine what was happening in the outside world, or at least what she could see of it. She stared at the ground while she walked, thinking over her dream. It was usual for her to have nightmares during the few times a night she slept, and every time she woke up feeling the same. Groggy and absent minded. She always assumed the nightmares were a sort of panic effect from her body thinking she might be dead instead of realizing that it was asleep, but she could only guess. She shoved her hand into her pocket and heard a small crinkling sound, knowing immediately what it was - a small hard candy, something she had picked up and saved for Serafina. She smiled a bit thinking of her closest friend. Serafina would always scold her for acting so sullen in the early morning and Kasumi quickly knocked herself out of her morning daze as she began walking faster to the gates.
"Look at that... for once I'm the one that's late." She mumbled to herself as she spotted four other members there, including Sera. Kasumi tossed the small piece of candy to Sera as she stood beside her.
"Goodmorning, guys." She nodded to Youta, Blade, and Anders.