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With no other option, I tried to pick hi any, and I probably had an infection brewing The adrenaline rush I got in battle with zoular life

Unfortunately, as worried as I was, the adrenaline hadn’t kicked in yet Or maybe I didn’t have any left Eventually, I supposed,it Unlike the zombies, I wasn’t immortal

I put my arms underneath Max and tried to lift, butin my biceps let

Still, I was deter a few steps before I stuo on withoutanywhere without you" I sat on the ground next to hiure out what to do

I couldn’t call to the others, not with the zo in whispers, afraid of alerting them to our location If I yelled for Boden or Teddy, the zoood for anybody

Our best bet was to wait here silently and hope the zoth, we could get up and catch up to the others

"You should keep going," Max insisted

"No" I looked at hiether, remember?"

I put my arm around him and stared doard the bottoain, and I wasn’t about to leave hi to the death groans of the zo to hide the scent of his blood I held ht behind us, and I whirled around, expecting to find a blood-thirstydownhill to us by hi to ask him why’d he come back here, but I was too afraid to make a sound

Without a word, he bent down and picked up Max He swung Max around to his back, so Max wrapped his ar back up the hill,noise

I followed after him, deter with Max, and I felt a second wind co that Boden was a zo sound of their death groans, I guessed the zo without a real purpose, possibly drawn to the scent of people but without a clear target We were on a et away froh away for that it was safe to talk, I finally asked Boden why he’d coroup anymore," Boden said

"You didn’t need to co into zombies"