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Shaun whipped around, staring at the e zombies “Whoa”

Unfortunately for Shaun, the addition of that many zombies had turned his buddy frorabbed the hockey stick as soon as Shaun’s attention was focused elsewhere, yanking it out of his hands Shaun staggered forward and the zo doith deceptive strength It hissed I screa et a lot worse There’s notcornered by a pack of zo Shaun would qualify

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There’s one advantage to wearing a sweater in the field, no matter how idiotic I think it is: wool tears Shaun ripped hireat speed, which is really the only effective weapon we have against the infected Not even the fresh ones can keep up with an uninfected human over a short sprint We have speed, and we have bullets Everything else about this fight is in their favor

“Shit, George, we’ve got coht in his tone “Look at ’eet on!”

I kicked us free as soon as he had his leg over the back of the bike and his ar and shuddering across the broken ground as I steered us into a wide curve We needed to get out of there, or all the protective gear in the world wouldn’t do us a daht up with us, but unned the throttle, praying that God had time to preserve the life of the clinically suicidal

We hit the last open route out of the square at twenty , Shaun locked one ar and blowing kisses in their direction If it were possible to enrage a ed it As it was, they just , arms extended toward the promise of fresh e without ht to keep control as we bounced fro on!” Shaun called back, see happy as a clam and oblivious to the fact that people who don’t follow proper safety procedures around zo up around zombies in the first place—tend to wind up in the obituaries

“Hold on with both ar fro; a pack this size was alh to establish an areatest concentration They’d ht on top of theood moan when dinner’s at hand The fact that I could hear theine meant that there were too many, too close If ere lucky, it wasn’t already too late to get away

Of course, if ere lucky, ouldn’t be getting chased by an arh the quarantine area that used to be don Santa Cruz We’d be so kicked off Once you decide to ignore the hazard rating and the signs saying Danger: Infection, you’re on your own

Shaun grudgingly slid his other arm around my waist and linked his hands at the pit of , “Spoilsport,” as he settled

I snorted and hit the gas again, ai chased by zoround The slope slows thereat, unless you hit the peak and find out that you’re surrounded, with nowhere left to run to

Idiot or not, Shaun knows the rules about zombies and hills He’s not as du zohtened, and for the first time, there was actual concern in his voice as he shouted, “George? What do you think you’re doing?”

“Hold, on,” I said Then ere rolling up the hill, bringingplaces behind trash cans and in the spaces between the once-elegant beachfront houses that were now settling into a state of neglected decay

Most of California was reclaied to take back Santa Cruz The geographical isolation that once made the town so desirable as a vacation spot pretty much damned it when the virus hit Kellis-Amberlee may be unique in the way it interacts with the human body, but it behaves just like every other communicable disease known to man in at least one way: Put it on a school campus and it spreads like wildfire UC Santa Cruz was a perfect breeding ground, and once all those perky co-eds beca infected, it was all over but the evacuation notices

“Georgia, this is a hill!” he said with increasing urgency as the locals lunged toward the speeding bike He was using my proper naia” when he’s unhappy