"Yeah. Because gunfire attracts them, whatever they are."

She repositions herself, getting comfortable. The gun doesn't feel very good in her hands, this isn't coming naturally, but she knows a good thing when it's offered to her. She'll try again, and again, and get at least passable with something long-range before walking out of here and finding out the hard way what the signmaker meant when they said the world had ended.

Her next attempt is much better. She hit close to the heart, and it appears to have been on purpose.

"Nice! See, I'm not a lost cause. Hey, I forgot to ask, do you have any idea what they meant? By them?"