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"If you do a lot and are active, you need brains more often," he said "In other words, you won’t ever see a zombie exercise Under normal circumstances you’ll be fine if you eat about a third to half a brain every other day After a few days without, though, things start to go bad pretty quickly, like a downhill slide So, if you’re in a job where you have to be fairly physically active, like yours, you’re going to need to eat ue cooler, "at least you have access to brains"

"When there are brains to be had," I pointed out

"People die all the ti you can be sure of"

Sure, but would they die soon enough to satisfy er?

"Okay, next question," I said "It’s a virus? Is there a treated "No idea Virus Parasite I don’t know Maybe a treat worked on But as far as I know, it’s been around for centuries"

I pondered that for a few seconds A parasitewhat, like a tapewor "Okay, well, what about, uave a frustrated sigh "Can we have sex?"

The skin around his eyes crinkled "Well, we barely know each other, but I’ "You knohat I h a second later I was laughing too "Okay, I deserved that I rinned "Yes But be sure to feed beforehand It’sbits fall off"

I shuddered "Okay, that’s disgusting"

"It reminds me of an old joke: What did the zombie say to the whore?"

I looked at him blankly "U left, I pulled the internet up on the computer and did a search on the Korean War, then stared at the screen in shock when I saw the dates 1950-1953 Holy Shit Kang’s an oldin funeral homes this entire tiht with growing ahed If I’d realized how old he was I would have asked hi he’d actually been a zombie "Don’t be a fool Stay in school," I muttered to myself

Fortunately eneral ignorance I went out on a pickup of a bue, and then of soas herself in her bathroorabbed lunch at a drive-thru on er to satisfyto coet the fact that I had two dead bodies in the back of the van

By the ti put away and entered into the computer, it was close to the end ofup in the next twenty ue was as spotless as I kne to make it I’d remembered to throw the trash from lunch out, but I knew from experience that I should probably check toin the van here it needed to be Nick was an arrogant pain, and if I’d sole french fry, I’d never hear the end of it

I stuffed my key card into the front pocket of ed shut behind me as a sickly familiar smell washed over h alert It only took ure crouched in the shadow of the wall, like a lion about to pounce

But this tiry at all

"You toldto take on an unpleasant rasp "You said you’d give ed clothes--noore a New Orleans Saints shirt and paint-spattered jeans They looked grubby and nasty, and I didn’t want to think about how long he’d been wearing theh me "Yeah, but you didn’t need to scare the crap out of ry," he snarled, then he shook his head "You don’t knohat it’s like"

"Whatever," I said, scowling "Y’know, you could’ve killed ht"

He bared his teeth "You’re a zombie That wouldn’t have killed you"

Annoyance shifted to anger "It fucking hurt anyway! And you didn’t knoas a zombie when you caused that accident If I’d been a normal human that wreck would have really fucked h me "Or was that your plan? Did you want to kill soed to hold round It helped that I was still totally sharp and focused froo by," he said "I kneas the coroner’s van, that you’d have to coh, and that you’d have a body in the back Why else would you be out at that hour on that highway, except for a pickup?" He paused His shoulders were hunched in a defensive pose "I waited until I saw headlights Saw that they weren’t a car’s"

"What if you’d been wrong?" I de," he said in a tone so casual it sent goosebuue He seized me by the upper ar into his voice