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Up the stairs, down a hall, heroo the street Curtains covered the s to keep the zo flesh was just out of their reach

"He looks up at me and I know he knoho I am," Tobias said softly

"What?" Jason stopped

"My son" Tobias drew back the curtain and pointed

It was hard for Jason to deter to The hot Texas sun was slow cooking the zo It was hard to tell the race of anyone

"He looks up at me and I know, I know, he wants me to help him and the children," Tobias said softly His voice was very unreal, disconnected

"Look, dude, I think o find your wife"

"I don’t want to speak to her She’s given up on them But I won’t I can’t" Tobias looked at Jason "How can I?"

Jack whined a little and Jason moved to close the"You shouldn’t let theive up?" Tobias persisted

"You can because they’re dead," Jason answered As he closed the curtain, he said, "My brothers, my dad, my friends, are all dead They’re just like that Undead And you have to let theo or else they will kill you and make you what they are"

"But this isn’t reality This isn’t how the world works They have to be sick In need of hter them" Tears slipped from Tobias’ eyes

Jason shifted on his feet uncomfortably "Look, dude, I think we should find someone to talk to you"

Tobias shook his head "There is no talking They need us and we deny theo out there and tend their wounds I don’t believe these lies about those poor people eating people It’s a lie"

Jason shook his head "No, I swear, it is not"

Tobias just stared at him, turned and started down the hall

Jack whined after him, then looked up at Jason Jason took a breath, ran a hand over his hair before following after Tobias There were construction workers co to drink and et down the stairs and out of the building

When he got outside, he looked around for the olderall the work they were doing and he wandered around Threading his way past living areas set up under tarps and past large piles of equip on the platform that Juan had told everyone to stay off of The plan was to put up a screen to shield the sentries fro at the crowd beyond the truck periet down fro toward the older an to push one of the longer ladders from the platform, over the wall, over the fence and toward the top of the trucks The wall and fence held up its weight and it’s length barely reached the trucks The older an to crawl over it

Jason reached the platforrip the end of the ladder to hold it in place The crowd of zoh he was far away froht made Jason feel sick

"Come back, dude! Come back!"

When the ladder see-sawed,Tobias stopped for a moment, and then continued on

"Mom!" Jason shouted "Mo the ladder, and caan to crawl over the spikes

Nearby, a woave out a cry and Jason was sure it was Tobias’ wife

Jenni reached the steps just as Juan did They jostled each other as the moved up the stairs and reached the platforun was already in her hand

"What the hell is he doing?" Juan took off his cowboy hat and ran a hand over his hair

"He was talking about his family About how they needed help He said he didn’t believe the stories about the crazily at the zoave hiave her a plaintive look, but obeyed

Tobias reached the top of the trucks and started to walk over theo trucks, the heavy sandbags, his arms held out to keep his balance

"Tobias, come back!" A woman had joined them and her expression was desperate

Tobias hesitated and looked back at theive in to superstition" He walked on until he reached the edge of the truck peri below He started calling out na

Jenni looked at Juan and showed hiun Juan nodded and Jason looked back toward Tobias sadly

The older man had now slid down onto his stomach and reached down over the crowd to one particular zombie most likely, but it was too hard to tell And then it happened One of the taller zoan to pull him down into the crowd Since his back was to them, Jason did not know if Tobias had finally realized the error of his ways or not