-- it... The blonde backs into a wall and sinks to the ground, expecting me to kill her but I don't. Instead I lower to -- @MaskedFondness

--the ground too, crouched over her small form, and examine her face too closely. I want to speak, to express myself in -- @MaskedFondness

-- a normal humanly way but the only thing I manage to pull off is the name I swiped from Perry's memory.] J...Julie... @MaskedFondness

Rrr...

[My eyes linger on @MaskedFondness. I watch the confusion leave her face and dissolve into hopelessness as her lids fall shut. All I --

-- want is to reassure her, to let her know that I don't want to do any harm, that the other zombies won't hurt her -- @MaskedFondness

-- either, but it's a struggle just to articulate lone words, let alone a whole string of 'em. I'll have to show her. -- @MaskedFondness

-- I bring one hand up to smear coagulated body fluids from the bullets I took across one side of her face. She doesn't -- @MaskedFondness

-- move or protest. She thinks she's going to be killed, but I won't let that happen. The new smell on her will confuse -- @MaskedFondness

-- the other zombies into thinking she's one of them. I nod my head to her, trying hard to spit out just one more -- @MaskedFondness

-- word.] Ssafe. @MaskedFondness

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Stay...with me. [I take @MaskedFondness by the arm, pulling her to her feet with me as I stand. If I have any hope of getting her --

-- out of here alive, they have to believe she's one of us. I may be able to defend her against one or two of -- @MaskedFondness

-- these guys but there's too many for my decomposing limbs to physically hold off on my own. Holding on to @MaskedFondness' arm, --

-- I pull her along with me as the Dead begin to abandon the park, keeping her close during the long ass walk back -- @MaskedFondness

-- to the airport. M grunts at her but doesn't pay much attention. The others don't even look at her. Relief floods my -- @MaskedFondness

-- normally numb body. There aren't a whole lot of things that I've done in my undead life that I've felt good about, -- @MaskedFondness

-- but this....this feels /important/. Julie is important, and no matter what, I'm going to keep her safe.] @MaskedFondness

Grrrrrrrr...