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I didn’t want to go inside to war a fever, and the cold actually felt good Besides that, I liked being able to see everything with the garage door open

I think that’s why Boden stayed outside, but I’m not completely sure He had theit when Daniels, Serg, Max, and Stella went inside the house

"We’re coo around it" Using his finger, he drew a half-circle on the map around the dot on the h away?" I asked "Or should we go more like this?" I drew my own half-circle about a centimeter out froo out that far We’ll just be wasting tiled with zoain," I said "We’ve lost three people in the last two days, and all our guns We couldn’t handle soain"

"I don’t want that either," Boden said "But it’s getting colder Howaround in this without getting sick? She’s malnourished and exhausted as it is Do you want to add pneumonia on top of that?"

"No, of course not, but I think that a zombie attack is h distance," Boden insisted "But it will cut half a day’s walk off our trip"

I opened ue runting, and Stella screa my name

"Max!" I shouted and was instantly onin the slush The few steps up to the front porch were horribly slick, and I al The handle to the front door turned, but the door itself wouldn’t budge It was stuck

Max had stopped yelling for me, which only made me panic more I slammed my shoulder into the door as hard as I could, but it still wouldn’tit with me, and the door finally flew in

"Max!" I yelled and dashed through the house, racing through the e in the kitchen doorway at the back of the house

I ran over and picked him up It wasn’t until then, when I had hi on the kitchen floor, bleeding Daniels was bent over hi’s sto around it

"She took her, Re me, his voice thick with fear

The house’s back door was off on the kitchen, and the door ide open, letting sno into the roo outside, but he , because he turned back to face us

"I tried to stop her," Serg said, wincing as Daniels put pressure "I’ to comfort him "You did the best you could"

So heavy, and he didn’t really needhim

"What happened?" I asked