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"Yeah, attacks," Cathy presses "If it was an accidental breakout, it would have spread from one spot and rippled outwards But they struck all over London at the same time Explain that, if it wasn’t planned"

There’s a troubled silence I’m disappointed that nobody see to find answers, but the zonorant of what really happened

"Anybody know if the zo wild out there?" I ask

"They don’t tell us stuff like that," Peder says "They don’t even tell the teacher’s pet what’s going on outside, do they, Rage?"

"Bite h

"Why’s he their pet?" I ask

"He sucks up to them," Tiberius smirks

"It’s all, Yes, Mr Reilly, sir! and, No, Mr Reilly, sir!" Danny jeers

"Can I help you with anything, Dr Cerveris?" Gokhan adds "Do you want me to bend over, so you can stick your needle up my - "

"One more word, eunuch boy, and it’ll be your last for a while," Rage says softly, and the teasing stops instantly He glares around and everyone drops their gaze Except rowls

"Yeah," I answer cale relaxes "He’s Turkish Half of that lot are eunuchs"

"Hey!" Gokhan objects "That’s racist, innit?"

"Not if it’s true," I srin for a moment Then I recall Tyler and my vow to put my crude ways behind me, and my face drops Looks like I’ll have to try harder in the future Old habits die hard

"So nobody knows anything," I mutter "We don’t kno zombies came to be, why they attacked when they did, how they struck in so many different places at once, or what the upshot of it was The undead ht have all been killed or captured, or maybe they’re still on the loose and this is the last place on earth where the living can walk around safely"

"It’s not," Danny says confidently "I overheard Reilly talking with one of the other soldiers He was telling him to shape up or they’d ship hihtly secured as this place"

"Well done," Cathy says scathingly

"What?" Danny whines

She nods at theYou’ve just gone and dropped Reilly in it"

"Well, he’s one of them," Danny sniffs "I don’t care what happens to him, just like he doesn’t really care about any of us"

"Reilly’s all right," Peder says

"Yeah," Danny agrees, "but at the end of the day he’s just doing his job He treats us decently because he’s told to If they told him to put us down, you think he wouldn’t?"

There’s another long, uneasy silence

"I thought you guys were better off than me," I say softly "But you’re not, are you? You’re prisoners, just like I am"

"Yeah," Mark says when nobody else replies "But it’s not all bad We could be reviveds They keep theether, none of the comforts that they treat us to And they experiment on them We don’t have to deal with any of that"

"No?" Cathy laughs cruelly "You’re even duain "What do you think all this is? We’re guinea pigs, just like the reviveds And when Dr Cerveris and his crew have learned all that they can, we’ll be discarded as casually as the others are"

We all stare at the mirror and wonder who’s on the other side and what they oes to their own part of the room to brood Sothem that at the end of the day we’re just fancily treated prisoners, at the mercy of those who have absolutely no human reason to show us any