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"We can get you new socks Coet you cleaned up before they expect you at the lab"

"All right, Dr Thorass da better at deceit I didn’t like it--I didn’t think I would ever like it, and that was good, because the day I loved a lie was the day I stopped being even re to need those skills if I wanted to get out of the CDC still breathing, rather than going out in a biohazard container bound for the incinerator

I took the deepest breaths I could as we left the biodos That hat freedos I have done today that were aweso Irwin: I shot a zombie bear in the head Six tiloat about, except she’s the one who h the eye, taking it down before it could, you know, as station ca, loaded, as the old colloquialisoes, for bear; I don’t think they expected to actually find one

Indy--the lady who runs the supply depot where we encountered the bear--said it was a grizzly So hell, rizzly in the world I’d feel bad about that if it hadn’t been an infected zombie bear that wanted to eat my delicious flesh

Da of Shaun Mason, July 26, 2041 Unpublished

Please tell , and you didn’t just lose track of our only known living human with a full immunity to Kellis-Amberlee amplification Please I don’t want to be the one who has to come out there and kick your ass

Seriously, Shannon, be careful You’re starting to get a little hard to follow, and that scares s, but if you et, when the ti to come for

--Taken from an e-mail sent by Dr Joseph Shoji to Dr Shannon Abbey, July 26, 2041

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Berkeley was asleep We pulled off Highway 13 onto the surface streets, using uide us to the intersections and off-ramps that hadn’t been outfitted with blood test units I was only wrong once, and that one tih for et into the back and climb under a counter, where I would be safely out of view Our van’s occupancy beacon was "broken," courtesy of Alaric and a socket wrench, and they’re not yet legally required for a vehicle to be considered road safe "Yet" is the operative word--I expect tricks like the one we pulled to be illegal within the next five years God bless "yet"

Becks pulled up to the hway onto surface streets I heard the slap of her hand hitting the htshift security officer as he asked where she was heading As a university town, Berkeley has never been in a position to crack down on traffic as much as, say, Orinda, where the city limits basically seal themselves as soon as the sun sets In Berkeley, only the individual neighborhoods can go for that kind of expensive paranoia