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“I have” I indicated one of the zo woman, no heavier than Buffy The wound that killed her the first tiainst the still-pink flesh of her throat, and the fabric of her pale gray University of Oklahonize her?”

“Should I?” Shaun leaned closer to the fence The zo her atteh “She’s definitely not one of e I mean, she’s cute, but way too dead for my tastes”

“Like you have any exes?” Shaun has dated as much as I have, which is to say “not at all” Buffy usually has five or six paraiven tietting in the way

“Well, if I did have exes, they wouldn’t look like her Fillsection at the senator’s presentation” She’d looked a hell of a lot better when she was alive I didn’t re her after the Q&A broke up If she left proiven her body mass, she’d have had plenty of tiain It wasn’t a difficult scenario to i in a public place and leaves the sale bite is a death sentence, and not everyone has the guts to call the police and request a bullet to the brain before it gets too late to avoid rising

Whoever she was, she died alone, and she died stupid I couldn’t help feeling bad for her

“Oh, jeez, you’re right” Shaun leaned closer still,well out of what most people would call the safe zone All five zo around the sa at him “That was fast”

“This isn’t the primary pack They’re too fresh” The most decayed of the zombies would still have been able to pass for hu he could keep hi had to bite them”

“Or one of ’eht The rest are south, harassing the guards” He gave the fence an assessing look “I’d put this at what, twelve feet?”

“Shaun Phillip Mason, you are not thinking what I think you’re thinking”

“Sure as hell am Keep ’e up, getting a running start, and launching hiht well above the reach of the tallest of the zombies His toes didn’t fare quite as well, but that didn’t h for even the infected to gnaw their way through Laughing at theirhimself up toward the top of the fence

“Next up, we havesuicide,” Ithe pad at ain to dial Buffy “Don’t fall, assle, or I’irl”

“Biteover the top of the fence and stood astride it, with one foot hooked into the chain on either side Unhooking the crossbow from his belt, he loaded the first quarrel

“Not while I’, oh brother mine”

“Buffy here,” said Buffy’s voice inthe feeds on this? I want any positive IDs you can pull on our friends You can cross-reference the one in the sweatshirt with footage froe twenty-three, political sciencelookups on the other four I have a few possibleconfir careful, almost affectionate aim on the nearest of his admirers I directed the handheld camera toward the mob as a crossbow bolt appeared in the center of their leader’s forehead He fell and two of the re his re two to menace Shaun The virus that drives the infected is only in it for theover the dead, but soht is always better than nothing at all

“Keep looking,” I said Shaun reloaded his crossbow, ive ood at what he does

“Of course,” said Buffy, sounding affronted She hung up, presuet a clearer picture of everything that had happened once Shaun finished having his fun and we could get back to the van If there’s a square inch of convoy that Buffy can’t get on fil ai wrong with the quality of the ainst the prevailing wind I dropped the caround, and turned to look behind me

The leader of the zombies—another fa—was ten feet away and closing fast,at that horrible, disconnected half-run that only the freshest zo He must have died evenaround less than an hour before That iroup attack, possibly by the pack that Shaun was in the process of dispatching

Sixat speeds ranging fro the pistol fro to aih bullets Even if I were as good of a shot as Shaun, which I’ht bullets and seven zoin for error I was already down below the one-for-one divide, and that er and the second zombie fell