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"It’s worth a look," Elephant agrees
"All right" I nod at Tyler "Lead the way"
"Me?" he squeaks
I grin sharkishly "It was your idea Only fair that if we get attacked, you should be first on their menu"
It’s hard to believe that I can make a joke at a ti as it’s been, I can’t shut down At the roup have a chance to get out and fight another day We have to cling to life as tightly as we can, put the atrocities frohts, deal with this as if it were a surprise exam What I’ve learned today is that when the shit hits the fan, you can sit around and get splattered, or you can take it in your stride and do what you htmares about this later, maybe a full-on nervous breakdown, but only if I keepthe corridors We’re the only ones on the move up here, none of the chaos of downstairs I have visions of walking into the cafeteria, everyone eating, unaware of what’s happening below Maybe they’ll think we’re winding thes and carry on with their lunch, oblivious until the zoet there, I immediately see that reality has struck just as hard in the cafeteria as it has downstairs In fact, it’s struck even harder
Students, along with soainst one of the walls They’reor trying to break free They seem to have abandoned hope completely
They’re surrounded by scores of zo off the living one by one, biting so into the brains of others It’s a carefully organized operation And pulling the strings, directing the roup of men and women in hoodies
My breath catches infroh two round s in the doors, taking turns to observe the horror show But when my turn comes and I spot the people in the hoodies, I freeze and can’t be torn away
There are several of them Each has a whistle, which they blow every now and then to command attention They have rotten skin, pockmarked with pustulant sores, purple in places, patches of flesh peeling away All have gray, lifeless hair and pale yellow eyes I can’t see inside their mouths, but I’m pretty sure that if I exaues
They’re the sauys at the Imperial War Museum, the mutants who tried to kidnap the baby And they’re clearly in control, do them to process the survivors neatly and efficiently
Seez was right This isn’t bad luck or a freak attack We’ve been set up And even though I wouldn’t have believed it was possible a o, I feel even more fear now than I did when the zoym