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As we pass an open door to a classroo!" she screa the door shut on the rest of us

Meths starts to slow but Stagger Lee bellows at him, "Leave her!"

We press on My heart’s ha it hard to breathe I was never the fittest - too h exercise I start to drift towards the rear of the group We turn a corner, then another I’ve lost track of where we are The zo closer The mutants in hoodies must be with them because I hear an occasional whistle

I’limpse of open space I stop and yell to the others, "We’re next to a courtyard I’"

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I sh theand whoop insanely, half-terrified, half-buzzing My arround co fast towards me Then I land in an untidy heap and roll aardly The air’s knocked out of lass nick my hands and knees But I’m alive I’m not badly injured And the courtyard’s empty

"Come on!" I shout at the others

Seez follows first, bursting through another pane of glass There’s a wide hole now and the rest can ju themselves up, a few cuts and bruises but no broken ankles or severed arteries

Suze and Ballydefeck are last Suze stares at the drop with terror She’s crying

"Hurry up," Ballydefeck says, grabbing her

She shakes hihts"

"It’s not that bloody high!"

"I - "

A scream from aon the other side of the courtyard stops her We all look Linzer is pressed against the glass, her face contorted Zoht Looks like Cassa keen nose for the living

"Get down and drop, then," Ballydefeck barks, getting to his knees and backing out, holding on to the sill

"All right," Suzeher eyes "But I can’t look You tell me where I have to - "

There’s a blur of one before she can screarab his ar

Several zoh the shattered s, and I’ to juht unnerves theloorier or braver zombies can take their place, we find the nearest door and race back inside, stuhted to be alive, all too aware that we could have very easily gone the same way as Linzer, Suze and Ballydefeck