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"On it, Boss!" She an toshut, sla "Dr Abbey’s in her office on the second floor! They’re holding the line, but they can’t do it forever!"

"Got it!" I took ai ood Thatwe didn’t both run out at the saencies--and this qualified--but I didn’t haveas convenient as, say, a brace of grenades That would teach me not to stay fully armed at all times

"Look at it this way" Becks shot a for the -practiced tandem "If we run out of bullets, we can just let them chew on you for a little while"

"I feel ain One of the older infected went down "Any idea howclue!"

"My favorite kind of duck hunt" My breathing was starting to settle, the adrenaline inaway The endorphins that replaced it were soothing,that used to drive rin, this floating, flying, nothing-can-hurt-s In et that There were no voices in my head that shouldn’t be there, but they were replaced by contente stopped talking This used to be what I lived for I couldn’t live for it anymore But oh, God, I missed it

Fire Step forward Fire Becks ducked behind un I pulledus a few more steps before she needed to repeat the favor

"This is not cool," I ot another reload on you?"

"No," she said gri to run"

I didn’t need to see her face to knohat her expression looked like "That’s a terrible idea"

"So is staying here! Either Dr Abbey’s been doing independent collections, or the locals called for friends Either way," I ai to run out of bullets before we run out of walking corpses We run or we die Got a preference?"