[For a brief moment, she takes his breath away, a play of fire and shadows, dark and red and moving in perfect symmetry, beauty even. Then he snaps back to, and the butt of his staff hits one of the zombies, hard.]

[It must have not been a kedan zombie, or it might have gotten a slash on the neck earlier, because the head rolls back from the body... which seems to still try to reach for him, though somewhat less effective.]

[Bucky shoves it, hard, towards the zombie in flames.]

Hey, you'd pretty much saved yourself. I only helped out a bit in the end.