Hope Fades

Winning vote:
Option 2 - Find someplace safe to hide in town.

While you regret leaving your friend behind, it seems the only real option is to worry about your own skin for now. You turn and bolt away from the hooded figures. Rainwater kicked up by the pounding of your feet gnaws at open wounds, and you mutter, “Por lo menos yo no tendré que rasurar este mes.”
You speed up, knowing that if you can only—

* coowahsissasissa*

“Aaaah!” A blade narrowly misses the side of your head.
You decide to get desperate and head for an area where your assailants won’t follow. Sal’s Used Car Lot lies to the west, but entering there runs the risk of encountering the Grumblebumm. The other choice is the park to the north-east…but no one goes there. No one. That’s where…

*gulp*

…the squirrels are.