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Hungry
I scanned frantically around the back of the van Crap was everywhere--loves, sheets and plastic for reallyopen and e another hard yank, and I let out a shriek as the stretcher and I slid forward Then I sahat the ed in the corner
Releasing rip on the stretcher, I snatched it up "Here! You can have this!"
The zo me My pulse sla and we’d all be out on the pave it off I clampedthe fastest one-handed bottle-opening I could e
I spat the cap out and I thrust the bottle forward again "Take this!" I tried to wave it under the creature’s nose but only
It worked anyway The zoood eye locked onto the bottle It let out a lol, rotting lips pulling back fro the bottle out "Just don’t take the body Please I’ll lose my job!" Not that the zoht now to listen to any sort of reason
The zombie snatched the bottle fro the contents in a , it dropped the eain and wrapped its aro in ut
After about half a minute he lifted his head Most of the rot had receded, and already I could tell he didn’t smell anywhere near as bad And now I kneho he was Zeke Lyons, and he worked at Billings Funeral Home
No Used to work there He’d been fired about teeks ago when he was caught taking jewelry off the corpses--which explained why he was in his current state I tasted bile on the back of ue Teeks without brainsand he was a rotted mess
"More," he rasped
I shook ive you any more" My voice sounded shrill and thin to my ears, and I knew I looked and smelled terrified I’d stopped hier I could only hope he was coherent enough to listen to reason now "I can give you"Co down at theain He looked almost normal Disheveled and dirty, but now he siry now," he said in a snarl, then his gaze snapped to me, both eyes whole and clear And blue He probably wasn’t bad looking at all when he hole
"What are you?" I had to force the question out I didn’t want to hear the answer I didn’t want to knoas true
His eyes narrowed "Zoh that sounded like tearing paper "You’re new"
I gave hi on top of the stretcher, clinging tightly with the one hand I didn’t trust hiain
"I remember when I was new" His voice was so low I could barely hear hilittered in his eyes "You won’t share"