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"Yeah, well how fucking long do we have, Nerit? How long before they are at our fucking walllong," Curtis screaht days"

"How do you know that?"

The hysterical note in Curtis’ voice was sharp and desperate and Bill reached out to callared intently at Greta

"Nuh esti him coolly

"So we plan Today All day if we have to, hoe are going to deal with this," Travis said

Eric nodded solereed Before we terrify the rest of the people"

"They’re going to be terrified anyway," Peggy scoffed

"Let’s try to give them less to be terrified of then," Kevin said with a small smile in her direction

Juan shook his head, his curls bouncing "This is not going to be easy

Getting rid of that e"

"We’ll deal with it," Nerit said firers were trerip and he leaned over and kissed her cheek gently

Juan rubbed his brow and whispered, "We got kids and kids on the way

We gotta do this We can’t afford to lose all we fucking gained"

"Then we do this," Nerit said again "We deal with it"

Kevin sat down at the table, his expression pensive but determined "Then let’s do it"

With that declaration, Eric rolled out the schean to plan All except one Curtis slipped out and ran down the hall He did not stop until he reached the roof of city hall and it was there that he sobbed until he collapsed

No one cament Day

Travis had never been so scared in his life He had facedevents in the last year, but this had to be the worst

The entire dining room was crammed with the residents of the fort They were crowded around tables, lined up against the walls, filling up the aisles, their voices a loud rue roo was about and the roos sitting around Calhoun

The Reverend had brought in the PA system from his brand new church on Main Street and Travis tapped thesound that filled the roolanced at Katie She graced hi s her, but he had a job to do As Mayor he had ended up the spokesroup of people staring up at hiet started," he said, his aain, then took a deep breath "Well, as you knoe’ve been working to make this a safe place for all of us I want to thank everyone for their hard work out in the gardens, the fields, the ranch and on construction And, oh yeah, the grub patrol Last nights biscuits were aweso of applause and Rosie smiled at him from where she sat with Juan, his children and her mother, Guadalupe

"But, that’s not e’re here We’re here for another reason and not a good one" He flinched as people began to look frightened Katie’s hand rested on his ar on, Travis?" someone yelled from the back of the roorave with concern

"I’s have taken a turn for the worse," Travis said

"And it ain’t the toilet paper supply running low again," Peggy drawled, folding her arhter and broke a little of the tension

"No, no, not the toilet paper running low It’swe got a large group of zo this way And not in the numbers we’ve seen before It’s around fifteen to twenty thousand zombies"

There was complete silence and it felt as if no one in the room drew a breath for a few minutes, then suddenly the room exploded into sound

People were on their feet, so, children clutched their parents tightly with fright, and Calhoun’s little pack of dogs started barking wildly

Travis held up his hands "Please, calm down! Calm down! We do have plans on how to handle it!" Despite the microphone, he felt as if his voice was s people