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"Travis," she called out

He looked up at her just as Curtis grabbed her from behind

"Katie, just run! Get help!"

Curtis lifted her up off her feet, his grip hard and suffocating around her chest She kicked her feet and wiggled, trying to get away Atte to screa cut off

"You stupid little lesbo whore," Curtis hissed in her face His features were so distorted he looked as unreal and corrupted as the thing trying to attack her husband below

"Let rip and dragged her to the rail "Don’t worry I will"

Katie’s eyes widened as he lifted her up over the rail and let go of her She ht with both hands

Pulling herself up, she ainst the wall

Calrip

"Let go ofbastard," she shouted at him

"Katie, drop!" Travis’ voice rose from below her

She craned her neck and looked doard hi back toward the mouth of the alley and he took a step back toward the wall

"Don’t drop, Katie," he said in a stricken tone

And then she saw the zo their way toward the hting for purchase on the wall, as she looked up and saw Curtis s over her, he looked even ed to get her boot up onto the wall and began to push upwards, but he put his hands on her shoulders and shoved doards

"Fuck you!" she screamed

"It’s okay," Curtis whispered "Really It will be okay Y’all will be together in the afterlife You, Travis, the baby, your dead wife"

"Go to hell," Katie spat at hi first," Curtis answered, winking

The moans were louder below and Katie screay blinked

"What?"

Nerit walked briskly past her, sniper rifle slung over one arm, barrel pointed doards, as she moved down the hall

"Nerit?"

The old woaze was steely and her face seeer somehow

"You’reyou"

"I have a job to do," Nerit answered, walking on

Peggy backed into the elevator slowly and then hit the button for the ground floor She had to let the others know Nerit was up and around

To her shock, she suddenly realized she was tre up was a good o for and knocked When there was no answer, she pulled her revolver and took a step back She fired and a hole was punched very neatly through the door Reaching through, she unlocked the door, pushed it open and entered

The air in the room was stale and she rubbed the tip of her nose This roo, she shattered the ith the butt of her sniper rifle, the glass cascading around her like silvery rain Grabbing the co over theledge, then dragged a chair over

Carefully, she clie, the co a strand of hair back frohtly It felt good and solid in her hands

The wind howled around her as she perched in thehigh above the fort below Her eye became one with the scope and she looked down into her narroorld knowing exactly what she would see

Travis ca at the base of the wall She quickly checked on the zombies and saw she still had ti with Curtis as she tried to hold onto the rail Unfortunately, he was leaning over her in such a way Nerit could not get a clear shot without endangering Katie

"One clear shot," she whispered softly, then realized it was a prayer "I need one clear shot"

Juan wiped his broith a kerchief and tucked it into his back pocket before reaching down to lift a concrete block up onto a cart There orries that one of the peri on its back wall for ht

"Juan! Juan! Where’s Travis and Katie?" Peggy ran toward hie old construction site, he shrugged "I haven’t seen them for awhile Why?"

"Nerit is up!"

"What?"