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That was another thing The overhead lights were industrial fluorescents, the sort that have been popular inThey should have been burning nosed with retinal Kellis-A that the same disease that causes the dead to rise had taken up permanent residence in my eyeballs It didn’t turn me into a zombie--retinal KA is a reservoir condition, one where the live virus is soave ht vision, and a tendency to get sickening lasses on
Well, I wasn’t wearing sunglasses, and it wasn’t like I could dihts, but ue, gnawing hunger in the pit of ood idea sometime soon There was no headache I honestly couldn’t decide whether or not that was a good sign
Anxiety was s ofin the room was unfa after stories and away froirl in the one-wayscrawny She looked like she’d be easy to break Her hair was as dark aspast her shoulders I’ve never allowedHair like that is a passive for And her eyes…
Her eyes were brown That,else, made it impossible to think of her face as my own I don’t have visible irises I have pupils that fill all the space not occupied by sclera, giving me a black, almost emotionless stare Those weren’t my eyes But my eyes didn’t hurt Which meant either those were my eyes, and ht when she said the afterlife existed, and this was hell
I shuddered, looking away from my reflection, and resu back and forth and trying to think Until I knehether I was being watched, I had to think quietly, and that ht better when I do it out loud, and this was the first time in my adult life that I’d been anywhere without at least one recorder running I’m an accredited journalist When I talk to n of insanity; it’s justsure I don’t lose important ht Even if there was some sort of experimental treatment to reverse as to me Shaun would have been there And there it was, the reason I couldn’t believe any of this was right: I re it was a falseit never happened, asn’t he here? Shaun would move Heaven and Earth to reach me
I briefly entertained the idea that he was so the voice froretfully, I dis would have exploded by now if that were true
"Goddammit" I scowled at the wall, turned, and started in the other direction The hunger was getting worse, and it was acco sensation I needed to pee If so to have a whole new set of problee," I said, taking soht have changed, but not that "You were in Sacra hit you in the ares like they used at the Ryman farm The test came back positive Rick left And then… then…" I faltered, having trouble finding the words, even if there was no one else to hear the knohat happens when you come into contact with the live form of Kellis-Amberlee You become a zombie, one of the infected, and you do what every zombie exists to do You bite You infect You kill You feed You don’t wake up in a white roo how your brother was able to shoot you in the neck without even leaving a scar
Scars I wheeled and stalked back to the ht eye open wide I learned how to look at ot ot , little patches of tissue scorched beyond recovery by the sun We caught it in tiot a lotcreated sthat interfered with fieldwork Just little spots
My pupil contracted to alht hit it The spots weren’t there I could see clearly, without any gaps
"Oh" I loweredsuddenly stupid as that realization led to another When I first woke up, the voice from the intercom told me all I had to do was speak, and someone would hear me I looked up at the speaker "A little help here?" I said "I need to pee really bad"
There was no response
"Hello?"
There was still no response I showedback to the bed Once there, I sat and settled into a cross-legged position, closingenough change in et their attention I wanted their attention I wanted their attention really, really badly Almost as badly as I wanted a personal recorder, an Internet connection, and a bathroom