"Shi--" Ilia hardly managed to snap off her expletive. The nurse was quickly becoming one of those monstrous things she had fought her very first night here, and she knew without a doubt that fighting in the close confines of the bus was not going to make it any less deadly. It might even work further against them. Ilia was not going to wait around to find out.

She grabbed Rose's hand and jumped out the seat into the aisle, shoving the girl back towards the exit door at the rear. "Move! Go! Go now!"

Other patients were scrambling just as fast to get away, and in such dangerous proximity it didn't go beyond anyone to throw another under the bus to escape. But Ilia was already in full-blown mother hen mode. Like hell would she allow anyone to knock Rose into harm's way. Not tonight.