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The war to the sound of death groans It was still dark, but I could hear the around the house as I woke everybody up and told them to pack

We tried to sneak off without Clark, but he’d heard us and got ready The sun was just starting to rise over the horizon e started out

Ripley followed us, but I wondered howsoe to be warh her fondness fore left, and Daniels carried her draped over his arlad I’d sent theht It worked out for the best, since we left so early

Clark seeed behind us, so we all sped up, purposely trying to leave him behind

None of us said much as alked We travelled all day, and when the kids were too tired, we carried theested I rest, but honestly, I was feeling better than I had in a while, so I pushed on

Even though ere heading farther north, it was getting warer alked The snowstor into the nicer te us Or they just happened to be all around us We could hear theh back They were like vultures, circling and waiting for us to die

We camped out in a tree in somebody’s back yard Boden surure out the ladder, which was a few boards spread apart and nailed to the trunk

They didn’t, but in thefor us at the bottom of the tree It would’ve been more, but Ripley had already taken care of a couple of the oke up

Our plan to kill the with the heaviest ones filled with food, like Boden’s duffel bag That knocked the zo and Boden ju cut the head off an older zo juh its neck It went surprisingly fast, but that was because older zoht them the old-fashioned way He storound By then, the other one had gotten up and started lurabbed its head and snapped its neck

The zo confused in a circle Ripley had just been lying in the laatching the off the job Boden had started

After that, the rest of us cli Stella, but she was sound asleep, her cheek pressed against his shoulder