Fortunately, the monsters in this movie had one rule: they did not enter houses. As long as they stayed inside, did not go out, and did not look outside, and kept their eyes squeezed shut, they should be fine.
They just needed to survive this initial period of chaos when the monsters first arrived! Once the monsters realized they could not kill anyone and left, they could patch up this breach, and everything would be all right.
Liu Hong pulled Mallory behind the seafood counter's workbench, daring not to make a single sound. Tom pushed Charlie behind another intact pane of glass, keeping one hand firmly clamped over Charlie's eyes. Charlie knew Tom was trying to save him, so he didn't struggle. He was holding his own arm, where a piece of shrapnel—flung into him by accident when Liu Hong shot Fish Stripe—was now bleeding profusely.
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