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"Christ How is that legal?"

Falconer shook his head "I have never seen anything like this in all my days Everybody you see inside town, all hazmat suits, all the vehicles--that’s all REPER Everybody else has withdrawn outside of town If we turned right here, we’d eventually run into a REPER cordon at city limits Get past it, and you’re in the Dead Zone--it’s a five- around the city where nobody is allowed All the houses in that ring have been evacuated, all the businesses shut down REPER patrols it in armored vehicles It acts as a vacuum seal between the city and the outside world At the end of the Dead Zone, you find the National Guard I’uns aimed at the city like they expect Day of the Dead to co out at them at any moment"

Falconer pulled off into the yard of an abandoned house, and parked in a spot behind the garage where the car wouldn’t be visible from the street

He continued, "But you see what they’ve done What the outside world knows about what’s going on in town, is only what REPER tells them There is no one else All the phones are jammed No news crews, no Internet access The military, they’re on the other side of five , whatever the govern, comes from REPER It’s their show"

John said, "And I’e is crazy"

"I’ll agree with that assessoes on in that asylum"

John said, "Well, what now?"

"We wait tothe shitstorot to get containet to Dave’s place? Are they … guarding it or anything?"

"Why would they?"

"They would if they kneas there"

Falconer said, "The drug, you ize ahead of tiet weird"

3 Hours, 15 Minutes Until the Massacre at Ffirth Asyluet renade had been pulled, there was no containing it This was soh he didn’t realize it

Amy’s ive her brother Jim all of the size and A as a bear, but was always the voice of reason in an arguht, it was to defend her Arenade inside her Her mom called it her "Irish" as in, "now cal out" which, ironically, ? But the look on Josh’s face right now, it was about to get all Irish up in here

"We have to go now We should have left two hours ago Fine, you don’t care about David, you don’t care if he gets eaten by a zombie or burned up to ashes, but who kno et the eye contact, said, "I totally understand you’re upset, but we have to be s their families move before the quarantine ss this place And I told you about Zach, he’s got food poisoning He’s already in bed That’s three guns we’re short But tomorrow--"

"Oh, for the love of-- You knohat you are? All of you? Children Little kids playing pretend, with toys You’ve spent years obsessing about this and now it’s here, much to everyone’s surprise, it’s actually here, and it’s ‘tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow’ Tomorrohen the sun comes up Tomorrohen the weather’s wars aren’t so bad, when everything is aligned just right so that there’s no risk of anything bad possibly happening"

"Calm down"

"Screw you!" Amy shrieked it, a sound that tore a hole in the air

Grenade, Amy, watch it

"You want to sit here in your little fantasy, your little suburban wo oil on your guns and congratulating yourself on how brave and strong you turned out to be in the stupid zombie war fantasies that play in your head You’re not a man You’re a boy All of you You’re little boys because you choose to stay little boys You don’t become a man until you wake up one day and realize that today the world needs you to be a man Josh, so help ht now, people will die Tonight Not tomorrow"