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He kept his gun securely in one hand and dropped to the ground He swung around in a circle and didn’t see any quickly, he secured theout of the trees off to his right They rew louder The answering moans of what sounded like thousands of zo over his bike, he quickly gunned the engine He didn’t want to do it, but he turned on the headlight anyway The bright light washed over the countless zo around, Rune raced the bike up the path, away fro fast in his chest and the Glock felt slippery in his h the brush and reached out for hi hiht was full of the moans of the dead and Rune prayed hard as he o as fast as he liked and the path was nearly overgrown in a few sections

He was beginning to fear he was lost when he saw Jenni standing near the path The light sluiced right through her as she urgently pointed he should swerve to his left It was not the way froinally come from, but he obeyed The new path led hi Another rider ed to reach the top, breaking through a line of trees around a stately old house

Looking behind hi the world below His original path would have led hiloves and hel down to a country road It was clear of the undead

Feeling like Paul Revere, he gunned the engine and roared off toward the fort Too bad he wasn’t wasn’t going to get to deliver the sa to have to tell the March Into The West For weeks the undead had been un when a handful of zo to break through I-35 and wandered after an escaping truck lu up a hill The fifteen zo and struggling over inal fifteen swelled in nuh the south side of Fort Worth, then dead towns and faruished there until the crows plucked out their eyes and vultures ate their flesh Others toppled off overpasses onto the streets below, their heads cracking open and rendering theh their ranks one dark store chunk of their nu them apart In the aftermath, bits of the undead littered a swath of countryside a

Months of rot, decay and exposure had slowed the undead down

So and bombard their havens until they either broke in or moved on

Slowly, resolutely, the undead wandered into the west toward the fort

Chapter 26

1 The Dead Are Coes in the fort as he drove up the country road It looked more like a fort than ever before

"They have catapults," he murmured, impressed

They would need them

A lot of the outskirts of the town had been razzed to the ground The debris was gone and Rune bet the people in the fort were using it as building supplies or weapons The road he traveled on had new roadsigns They were clear directions on how to safely approach the fort

Rune noted so the way The zombies couldn’t read or think, so he could see how the traps could be very effective

When he finally reached the gated entrance, he was inized hiry, but he needed to let the fort leaders knoas going on Ken and Lenore were the ones who began to check hiood to see fa Boss and Nerit know I need to speak to the," she answered and pulled out her walkie-talkie

"Is Dale still around? And Maddie?"

"Yeah, they’re still here," Ken answered, his sh since you left A lot of people died But a lot of people also carew in other ways, too" Runehelicopter

"You have no idea," Ken answered

"Go on in, Rune They’ll meet you in Travis’ office," Lenore instructed

"Thanks See you guys around"

Despite all the changes to the fort, Rune found his way back into the old familiar territory of the hotel There were definitely new people around and when Maddie spotted hi fro about the front doors Bill and Curtis greeted hiave hi with so after being around the dead for so long But as even stranger was the disconcerting lack of ghosts<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>