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"We go through the parking garage to the covered et eaten, but we’ll have a better shot at getting out alive"

President Ryuy Leader of the free world--and unwilling tool of an international conspiracy--one minute, potential zombie-food the next "How did this happen?" he deed soory "Between that and the situation here… the CDC is taking steps to resolve the ratulations We are all expendable"

"Cheer up, everybody," said Shaun, and grinned--the grin of a er "This is going to be great for ratings Let’s go"

We went

The past thirty years bear a startling resemblance to the Greek ht A box that should not have been opened; a plague of pains and pestilences loosed upon the world; and, at the end, hope Hope that we refused, for many years, to allow ourselves to look upon with unshadowed eyes What e afraid of? Were we afraid hope would prove another phantoh our hands likeworse was hidden in its wake?

I think not I think ere, quite si to hope would ed forever There is no return to the world we knew before the Rising That world is dead But as the Rising itself took such great pains to teach us…

Even after death, life still goes on

--Froined, authored by Mahir Gowda, August 10, 2041

Look, Ma! I’irl now?

--Froust 7, 2041 Unpublished

SHAUN: Forty

We fell into a ragged formation with President Ryman at the center Alaric was almost as well protected; he’d never passed his field certifications, and none of us was particularly enthused by the idea of hi was made up of Secret Service withRick, who’d taken a pistol fro next to Becks None of the hiured they’d be lucky if they et any of us out alive, much less both of the elected officials

"You people still kno to throw a party," he said nervously

"Practice Alaric!" I didn’t turn to face him; my attention remained on the hall ahead of us Steve was on point, since he was the one who actually knew the way, but I wasn’t going to let him hit the first wave--if there was a first wave--alone "How are you doing with bouncing a signal out of this loony bin?"

"I’et a clean connection!"