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Ellis darts away, and I follow her,out from the shadow of the crashed Land Rover and into the open I look along the highway in both directions It&039;s a single ed drivers and their passengers are dead I can see theed behind the wheels of wrecks, others with their bloody faces sainst s Soes from the back of an overturned truck a short distance away Before they&039;ve taken more than a couple of steps away, Ellis has attacked She jued round with incredible brutality

A pack of fighters races pastout here in the wasteland, and now they pick their way through the convoy like vultures, stripping theout the survivors and tearing theed, ed resistance is quickly crushed Even those who try to run are chased down and killed

Ellis lunges at another one and disappears fro hurts I look down and see that there&039;s blood dribbling down fro and boot are stained wet-red

"Ellis, wait," I try to shout, round beside a jeep, leaning down over another body She looks up at me, and a chunk of bloody flesh drops frorab her wrist before she&039;s able to get away "Too dangerous here Need to get under cover Coers off and craay, searching for the next kill She brings down a dazed, blood-soaked woman who&039;s already half dead She pulls her down to her knees, grabs a fistful of hair, and sain into a charred car door, denting the paint-stripped metal more andother wrecks for support Up ahead the toweringto fade and lose focus That makes me even more afraid Soon the air will be filled with poison if it&039;s not already I throw ht around her The pain in nore it Ellis is all that matters

"You have to come with me We&039;ll both die if we stay out here"

She puts the soles of her bare feet against thealready weakened, I fall back She bites down onto o She stands over me, one foot on either side of ainst the fine dust and ash, which is falling faster now I reach up and snatch her hand again as she sees another Unchanged and tries to run I won&039;t let go I can&039;t let go She screao

"Stay with me, please"

Ellis drops down onto ? Does she understand any of this? Another Unchanged trying to drag itself to safety distracts her, and she starts to o"

She clenches her free hand into a fist and hits ain and again and again until my face is numb and ht back

I feel her get up

There&039;s so et even the first word out I&039; hard, my blood on her hands

"Ellis-" I start to say, but she isn&039;t listening She looks up, then sprints away I turn my head and watch as she disappears into thefor her next kill All I can do is watch her go