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“Finally Sleeping Beauty awakens,” Rowan says to me “I bet there was a kiss involved” She winks at Valerian

Felix reddens and Valerian shakes his head, while Itzel just huffs into her breathing mask

“Newly ht corpses

She nods “I gathered some helpers for our trip” She emphasizes the preferred Necronian term

Ariel looks worriedly down the street “It’s a good thing she did The Overtaken attacked us thile you were out”

I scan the zombie herd, but of course, in death, the Overtaken look identical to other corpses “Twice? I didn’t realize there were enough people left alive on this world to Overtake”

“There are,” Felix says “In fact, while you were out, I was able to locate a coet into this world’s equivalent of the internet I spread the forive the survivors a chance”

Ariel sly on the shoulder “I wonder if the Councils could leave so it to Necronia”

“I’ll tell them to do so,” Valerian says “Noe should head out before more Overtaken attack We have no cure for that problem”

Fabian pushes the zouns Once we have those stashed, he also gives me my katana and Valerian his sai

Dylan is still standing there, her gaze unfocused

“Dylan,” I say forh with the cure, Valerian and I would be part of Rowan’s zombie herd”

At the eneral direction but doesn’t e the thanks

Weird

She hadn’t acted like this before

Is this one of the side effects of Rowan bringing her fro Dylan wouldn’t be the same, yet Valerian, Fabian, and I pressured her to perform the special resurrection anyway

Then so else catchesmasks anymore—despite the fact that we’re on a virus-infected world

When I ask about it, Dylan seems to perk up a little “The cure isn’t just a cure,” she says with a hint of her usual professorial tone “It works prophylactically as well”