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"My apart it against lanced away from his keyboard "Shaun--"

"Don’t Stay here, keep the network trafficto need later, and just don’t" Kelly stepped out into the hall, following Alaric I looked froht back"

I don’t believe you just said that

"I’ve been saying it all ency lights were on all the way along the hall, bathing it in bloody red light that was supposed to "convey a feeling of urgency" while "reducing the ical contamination" Government doublespeak for "red freaks people out so theyin that way" ohad activated, at least in the public areas where we hadn’t bothered to install any overrides The shutters blocked out the screaht

Leave it, Shaun It’s not that i the one with the body et to decide what’s important" The stairs were clear I took thedid

Shaun--

"Shut up, George," I said, and opened er keeps a black box in case soer keeps a black box in case soer keeps a black box in case so to ith keeps a black box, because every blogger you should be willing to ith understands that "things going wrong" isn’t an if It’s a when

Black boxes take a lot of forms They’re named after the boxes the FAA puts on airplanes to record inforer’s black box is basically the same: That’s where we record the infore’s black box was built to withstand every known decontamination protocol, and a few that were still just theoretical It was the first thing I got back froht think it wasn’t worth going out into the open for, but they’d be wrong It was the only thing worth going out into the open for

George and I basically grew up online What with the Masons cheerfully exploiting our childhoods for ratings and our own eventual entry into the world of journalis we ever did wound up in so, anyway There were always the things we didn’t want to share, or didn’t kno to That’s e kept paper journals It was the only way to steal ourselves a little privacy That "we" is intentional, by the way; George was always the thinker, while I was always the doer, but we kept one diary between us for ales, and then I close my eyes and let her take care of hers

I don’t read theine that they’re real

The black box contained our paper journals Her lasses, her first handheld MP3 recorder, and data files fron up until the point where she stopped recording Her bottles of expired pain ether, it was the most physical part ofto run off and leave it behind

Getting ether took less than fivewith all the weapons I could grab, and cra There was a picture of us on rabbed it and slipped it into the pocket of my jacket Whenever you have to evacuate, there’s always the chance that you won’t be able to co to live without

I paused at the door, glancing back at the boxes and the barren walls Everything I cared about could fit in one bag, the pockets of ic about that Or there would be, if I let e in the back of my head, almost too softly for me to hear

It’s scary when she fades out like that It reminds me that, technically, her presence ain "I won’t," I said brusquely, and pulled the door shut as I hurried toward the stairs

My headset connector started beeping angrily when I was only halfway there I unsnapped it fro, "What?"

"We’ve got a probleht as well have been telling ot back frothe stairs three at a tih It was the best I could do

"Well, it turns out that he’s had enough field training to know that when you open the roof door on a mass of the infected, you should stop and turn around"

My toe caught on the lip of the stair I was stepping over, sendingmy elbow in the process "What?!" I barked, in ale