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"I scrape zouts off ruan to read the words of Socrates

"Boys are so moody," Jenni decided

"And they say we are," Katarina scoffed

Jenni set coun with Katarina instead of Katie But Katie was back in the fort, helping with other areas of i to do with Katie not being assigned to any of the groups heading out of the fort Her pregnancy had been a shock when announced Most of the fort was happy to welco children was irresponsible The comments were never made around Katie or her husband, Travis, but Jenni heard thes about the baby were mixed On the one hand, she was happy for her friend and ready to be an aunt, but on the other she feared for that new life being born into a world full of the hungry dead Was it really fair to bring a new life into a world so full of death? Would it have been fair to try to raise her boys in this undead world? Jason was older, almost an adult, but Mikey and Benji would have lost whatever re, she felt her stoht of her dead children Tears burned in her eyes as she realized she would rather her boys ith her than dead Juan would have been a good father, and they would have worked hard to give the boys a good life But that would never happen So is going on," Katarina said, pulling Jenni away froot problems ahead," Ed’s voice crackled over the CB

Jenni snatched up the mouthpiece "What’s up?"

"Bunch of zombies have a van surrounded Looks like people are up on top of it Whole way is blocked" Ed sounded peeved by the whole situation

"We have to save theh the static

Jenni could i policeman’s face

"Got any ideas on how to handle it? ‘Cause I’," Ed answered

"Pull up," Jenni said to Katarina

With a nod, Katarina shifted gears and moved their truck out of the line to drive to the front where Ed’s vehicle, a school bus, sat idling at the top of a hill As they drew up next to the bus, Jenni scowled

"Fuck"

It was hard to see how many people were on top of the van, but it was easy to see the crowd of zoathered around them It looked like the van had stalled out and the occupants had h a sunroof The door on the side was open and zoroup was busily consu someone near the side of the road

Ed slid open thenext to the driver’s seat and peered out at therizzled face looked pissed beneath his battered hat Jenni pushed the button for theand it slid down "What do you think, Ed?"

"Got at least three dozen down there trying to get to those folks I figure we can either drive close enough to try to get them to come to us, then flatten the the people"

"They won’t draw off if they’ve got fresh food in front of theh to thin out the outer edge with the guns, then go in and clear out the rest with machetes, spears and my trusty ax?"

Curtis walked up next to the vehicles, his weapon out" His truck was idling behind Ed’s "We need to hurry whatever the hell we’re doing It’s getting bad down there"

The zoet to the people on top of the van, they were beginning to rock the vehicle So to stand to wave down the caravan and Jenni gasped as he tuh the cold air, then broke off abruptly

The zoottait into Curtis Yanking her ax out of the truck, shethe ax into the specially made sheath on her back, she slammed the door shut with her hip Determined to bust some zombie heads, she headed down the hill

"We don’t have a plan, Jenni!" Ed shouted after her

Jenni stalked toward the undead swarm "Kill the fuckers! That’s the plan!"

3 Sentries of the Dead

The zorowling hat sounded like frustration

Katie looked down at it fro in the wind Rubbing her cold, reddened hands together, she studied the creature’s distorted features Most of its flesh had torn off and one eyeball rolled up toward her in a gouged socket How it could see her, she could not iht of her

It had no lips, so its bloodied, decaying teeth looked hideously large as they chorily

"I can’t even tell if you’re a boy or a girl," Katie ross," Stacey re woman leaned her elbows on the cold, cement bricks and stared at the zombie "I think it’s a boy"