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And then people started dying and getting back up to ured out as happening daht back, and we had one advantage the characters in zombie movies never seem to have: See, we’d seen all the zombie e always said the first su was possibly the best example of human nobility that history had to offer, because for just a few ers started pointing, we really were one people, united against one eneht to live, and in the end, on

Sort of, anyway Look at theand you’ll see a whole different world froo outside just because they think that, hey, going outside ht be fun They don’t file paperwork or put on body aro A world where people travel on a whis and do a hundred thousand things that are basically unthinkable today It seeeneration and a couple of decades away If you ask

The Rising didn’t just showcase the nobler side of hu as there have been wars, there have been war profiteers There’s always so to make a buck off somebody else’s pain I’m not sure most of them meant to do what they did--I’--but soed to take arht out of a Romero flick was convinced that what they really wanted was fear They put down their guns, they locked their doors, they went inside, and they were grateful for all the things that they were scared of

I used to think the Irere great warriors in the ongoing fight to live a nor to suspect that we’re just tools of soreater plan After all, why leave your house when you can live vicariously through a du to risk his life for your aetting bitter, George observed

"I got reason," I said

Bread and circuses is what got George killed We--her, inal After the End Tiot hired by President Ryn He was Senator Ryman then, and I was a dus, butto be the one who buried her, and I was sorry that she was going to bury me, but we’d boththe news, and ere chasing the truth, and ere on the adventure of our lives Literally, for George and Buffy, because neither one of them walked away from it Turns out there were people who didn’t want Ryman to make it to the White House Oh, they were happy to have him elected They just didn’t want hi their own candidate

Governor David Tate Or, as I prefer to think of hi part of the conspiracy that killed my sister" He admitted it before he died Well, before he injected hie quantity of live Kellis-Aation, I got asked why I thought he’d decided to pull the classic super-villain rant before he killed hiot asked a lot of other questions, too, but that was the one I had an answer for

"Easy," I said "He was a s fker anted us to knoesome the world would have been if we’d let hi for tied to inject hi with He wanted us to think he was the mastermind It was all him But it wasn’t It never could have been"

They asked h to kill my sister"

They didn’t have any questions after that What could they have asked? George was dead, Tate was dead, and I’d put the bullets in both of the, a statee These days, I’ive me a medal I think Rick probably convinced then-Senator Ry a federal official, and nobody wanted to deal with that Although Iof distractions, there was so eon was now industriously pecking atsteroids in your birdseed or so you I found the receipt from the last time she hit the pet store"

"Since I haven’t made any atte if you didn’t know," said Becks, from about three feet behind me "As it is, you noticed the receipt and not the twenty-pound bags of birdseed in the office coat closet That doesn’t say much about your powers of observation"

"But it says a lot aboutthe pigeon fluttering off to find a safer place to perch "Is there a reason the sanctity of the roof has been violated?"