It was a risk worth taking. She could take them out, then gun straight for the city's walls and hope for the best.

When bolts of lightning seemed to come from out of nowhere, joined by what she identified as guitar, she was perplexed, for nothing in the weather patterns above spoke of storms. Or music.

Addressed, she turned and had her answer. Readings from this man and his guitar were fluctuating off the charts, but it was nothing she had the time or energy to study further at the moment. "As well as I can be, in my current situation."

She had to keep her cool, despite the screaming panic of the error messages going on in her head. "The city... is it friendly? I'm in considerable need of a power source."

Best not to fib. He'd just bailed her out of the bug situation, after all.