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"He burned it down?" I turned back to Max, and he nodded "With himself in it?"

"It was the only way to stop the zombies," Max explained

"What happened to everyone else?" I asked "What about all the other people there?"

Max frowned, looking sad as he thought about it "Some of them escaped, I think Some died in the fire And the rest are zombies"

I went back over and knelt down in front of hiain, touch hiainst him, her eyes wide and terrified

"Stella, don’t be scared," Max said, his voice soft and co "This is my sister, Remy You know the lion? That’s hers"

"Ripley?" Stella asked, and she seehten a little

Ripley had sprawled out on the floor, licking herself, but she stopped when she heard her name

"Yep," Max said "And anybody that has Ripley can’t be that bad, right?"

Stella seeo back to bed, and she crawled in theherself in the, but notcare of Stella, and that eet but also a little strange for ht of hi him more mature He’d been able to create a small safe haven, even here in a zoiven him credit for

When I fell asleep curled up in the blankets beside hi ti below us It was the first tiether

In the , Stella attempted to make us breakfast, which amounted to a can of beans in cracked teacups Max said that he often scavenged for food and for toys that Stella ht like, which explained the teacups

Many of the zoht, as Max had predicted they would, but they weren’t all gone That o find Boden and the others so we could join theh the night