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I didn’t really want to camp here, since it was still too early to stop for the day, but it ht have supplies we could use We didn’t knoas inside, so I suggested that Lazlo and the girls wait outside while Blue and I went inside to raid the place

Harlow didn’t care e did as long as she didn’t have to walk anymore, and she plopped on the front lawn the instant we stopped Vega went a few feet away to kneel and pray, while Lazlo and Lia stayed close by the house, keeping an eye out for roving zombies

The smell hit me the instant I pushed open the front door The stench inside the house had beco food and death Blood splattered the walls, and a human arm lay on the floor in the front room The arm looked like it had been there a while, and I couldn’t hear any zoroans

I went into the house further, and that’s when things got weird

At first, the place see did after zoot the i In the kitchen, all the cupboards had been opened, so only perishables were left

A raccoon lay dead under the table, but it hadn’t been mauled by zoo, based on the total lack of ots

“People were here,” Blue said

“Pretty recently too,” I nodded

“That’s a good thing… right?”

“I don’t know,” I shrugged I looked out the here Lia laughed at soron “This place has been gutted, though We should move on”

“We’re not that far from a town anyway,” Blue said He e “What?”

“Nothing,” I lied

Soave me a bad vibe, but I couldn’t place it Zootten supplies That wasn’t any different from e did

They had killed a raccoon, but that wasn’t that big of a deal It’s not what I would’ve done, but I didn’t alwaysclose to the quarantine” Blue tried to alleviate my anxiety “Maybe soldiers were here”

“Maybe,” I said, but I didn’t think so, at least not the part about soldiers doing this “Coo”

We went to the front door, and I stopped short When we had come in, we hadn’t looked at the back of the door, but I did now So thick, poisonous zombie blood as ink