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Dropping the nearly empty first can, you rush to the second can and quickly splash more of it into the entryway.

"What are you trying to burn this place down?" asks Mindy.

"The fire will be contained—the vestibule is all stone, so the flames won't spread past it. The raiders won't be able to come in, so it will buy us time."

Shots erupt in the entryway as a female raider squeezes her body in enough to fire a semiautomatic rifle. Bullets whiz past your ear, too close for comfort. You step back from the entryway. Heather rushes by your side with a lighter in hand and tosses it into the entryway The two of you hasten to the side of the Sanctuary and hear an almost immediate whoosh as the gasoline ignites. The screams of the female raider pierce the crackle of the flames. Though the flames are contained to the inner area, your predictions are true—the raiders remain outside the Cathedral.