The sight of the arm breaking off is enough to make Claude pause where he is despite being ready to take off in the direction he's pointed out, though he recovers from being startled when Garrus confirms their plan. That's enough to get him moving with the mental note to avoid touching the corpses, something he'd already planned on, but it never hurts to have further confirmation of that.

It's a short jog to where the tables are and given that both of them are faster than the advancing dead, he feels safe enough to set his bow down safely out of the way to grab one end of the table with a nod to Garrus to take the other if he can to create their makeshift barricade. He'll probably have to apologize to this particular merchant next time he shows up for work, but maybe the man will understand.

"I figured that this way we get the benefit of both a little cover and some added range," he explains even if the plan's probably clear enough. "Distance tends to work a little better for bows though that goes without saying, really, but now we can also appraise what's approaching us."

And speaking of that - once they're settled, Claude grabs his bow and readies it again though now he blinks in slight surprise when it seems like there's much fewer corpses standing. "Did... we take more down already than I realized? I have a running count, but." Well. No matter; that can be figured out later. Better get back to firing arrows.