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I took a deep breath and turned back to the new guy "What’s your nalance at McKinney and received a whisper of a nod in response "Nael" And I’el of Death today, one way or the other, I thoughtin the general direction of the wall I gave a nervous gulp "I…I’ to hurt"

Aaronhis back straight and stiff "It’s all right ma’am I’ve been injured before"

I knelt down beside hiet the hell out of here Tell hioing back froave ht ht I’ hold of his shoulders, I leaned over and bit hiht on the meat of htened down, but didn’t twitch at all I bit harder, tasting blood, then released hiain C’ed the parasite I can’t do this on my own Blood filleddowna really tough piece of steak and did my best to tear the flesh

I sat back on ," I said, trying to keepI swear Maybe it’s too soon Let me try some other time Please!"

McKinney regardedyet There’s one thing that’s different" And with that he lifted the gun and shot Aaron twice in the chest, in an almost exact duplicate of the wounds on Philip

Aaron jerked, eyes wide as he fought to get breath

"No!" I screa to be able to save hi when you tried to turn hi near death is a requireled to catch ht? I’d been close to death when Marcus turned me And Marcus said he had rabies…but surely he hadn’t been actually dying when Pietro turned hi a fatal disease count?

Aaron ht for breath Blood bubbled at his ave me that same sweet smile How could a seasoned soldier like this be so…innocent? I struggled to give him a smile in response, but I kneas a sickly effort

I leaned forward once again and bit down, silently praying with everything I had that this would work I bit, I chewed, I even forced myself to s a ser the ered was nausea, and it wasn’t long before Aaron let out a low sigh of breath and went still

"Fascinating," I heard Dr Charish say "Though annoying," she added "It seems the parasite has a built in population control, whichthat huot slowly to my feet, turned to face her I knew I still had blood around my mouth but I didn’t wipe it off She stood with her hands on her hips, looking between ravation The black-suited man didn’t looked very pleased either

"And how, pray tell," he asked, "are we supposed to build a unit of Zoldiers if we can’t make more than one?"

"I can fix that," Dr Charish snapped "The lie of food supply Once the parasite is introduced to the pseudo-brains it should adjust accordingly I’ve given the new formulation to Philip, and there are none of the issues that were present with the previous batch Which aze went back to"And which also means that we don’t need to waste resources on this one anymore Take care of it, McKinney"

I crumpled as McKinney’s rounds hitreally fucking tired of getting shot I h Because Ed’s brilliant idea was hopefully going to pay off now

"Do you want hed "Oh, heavens, no! This is an excellent chance to see how the zombie parasite reacts when it doesn’t have the brains it needs" I couldn’t see her, but I could practically hear the bitchy s across her face "I want to see her rot Let’s see how cocky she is when her tits are falling off"

The governusted noise in his throat "You’re a sick woman, Kristi But I suppose that’s necessary for this sort of research"