now you're

the door sounded

had been seventeen when she last saw him, all restless energy an

way he used to knock three times on her bedroom

the hallway h

at frighten

d again. "Please

away from t

heard his voice outside. She didn't kno

andle stop

econds, there

g scraped acr

g me angry,"

heart h

r spoken to h

The wardrobe jumped against it,

couldn't use the fire escape, but a drainpipe ran down the sid

errible es

the only o

cross her chest and cli

the door s

yr

e voice wasn'

s fur

gripped the drainpipe. The met

n climbi

trembled as she reached the narrow ledge, and pain

e apartment d

scream fill

looke

aned throug

retched too wide, and black veins covered i

it sm

the remaini

s the ground, and scrambled to her feet

e

y two streets away. Inside, she dragged a metal shel

le body

remembered him. It had remembered his words, hi

n't the same a

erself until she could

bleeding through the bandage, but the c

e bottom of her shirt an

d the folder f

erritory she knew nothing about. If the infected were learning to

map she'd found in

vehicles. The eastern road passed through an industrial district where infected had gath

r, but it offered m

d the route

t siren

owards the b

stopped

r sounded f

llowed fro

eered through a

eets we

qu

pt

figures she sometimes saw moving through broken windows were gone.

experienced sil

d outside

a bus stop. Her clothes hung loosely from

nfec

ised he

n didn't

rned towards th

m a shop. Then two more appe

hem face

, they beg

ass the bakery with

d her pipe

u doing?" sh

o the road. Its head turned towards the othe

of infected were moving

n't chasi

't reactin

following

ted had gathered around him outside the police station. She rem

ibility took sh

weren't simply beco

ething was

r supplies. She had intended to leave Greyhaven at

h the counter. She carried them to the roof through a

e could see th

s. Some walked slowly. Others stumbled or dragged their feet. A few moved with u

group walked the m

red the b

at an int

he seemed to

his head towa

rds

ce, Nyra felt the wei

raised h

ingers

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away from the

ered his hand an

il the crowd had passe

e roof and left the bakery

Greyhaven. If the infected were heading towards the mo

chose a narrow service road th

, though she would have to cross an

egan w

han half a mile when s

torn and his throat covered in bite marks. Hi

and carefull

nding beside a woman and a you

one had written a

photograph besid

n't save

ven save the p

could fi

o count fo

ontinued along

d sideways across the tracks. Its windows were shattered, a

roached

tached to the dashboard. She switched it

illed th

voice e

northern moveme

eaned

ng towards the mountain corridor.

voice int

lem. They're not respond

em," the first voice snapped.

blood c

had come from m

ected were moving to

rdered the ro

o crackl

the subject secured be

nsmissi

ed at the

ect

a

radio and stepped a

the infected reached Helix, then her brothe

knew more than

rom her pocket and look

MMANDER VOSS

it and tuck

d towards the

would get to Helix Station. And she would lear

railway crossing, the radio be

pered throug

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mander V

his si