Aftermath (Invasion of the Dead, BOOK 1) by Baillie Owen

Author:Baillie, Owen [Baillie, Owen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Published: 2014-01-18T05:00:00+00:00

16

They rode in silence for a time before Dylan opened his father’s small notebook. “Have you read any of this?”

“A little.” Callan had glanced through it. There were general notations about things Dylan’s father had seen, limited at first to distant observations and comments from those he had spoken with in town that had witnessed more.

“He calls them ‘feeders’,” Dylan said, “not zombies, although he believes the ones that come back in this state have technically died. Says here that Doug Edwards from the hunting store saw someone die in the final stages of the virus. They actually died. No pulse. But within minutes they were awake, alive, walking around. He said you wouldn’t have known.”

“Jesus.”

“I think maybe the old guy was in this state, the one who killed himself. Dad also says, from what he can gather, the blood and flesh of other living entities keeps them alive, that it satisfies the fundamentals of the virus.”

“All they care about is feeding. Feeders.” It sounded appropriate.

“According to my father, there are three types. The basic level that has zero mental faculties. They eat, and when they have consumed everything, they look for the next thing to eat. They will even eat themselves if desperate enough for food.”

“Like the ones we saw last night in town, fighting each other.”

Callan braked the car at the intersection of Silvan and Starling Road, and glanced both ways. He almost didn’t see them. “There.” On the left, wandering aimlessly around the front lawn of a wide property was a small pack of zombies. They might have been from the crowd they’d seen outside Sirelli’s. Shirts open and torn. Hair thinning. One of them held an arm or leg in its hands, gnawing at it as if it were a big chicken wing.

“Do we kill them?”

If they stopped for every zombie, they might never reach town. These were a good hike from the property and, even if they shambled up Silvan Road, Callan thought he and Dylan would beat them back. “No. If they head toward home, we’ll catch them on the way back.”

He found humor at the notion of calling Dylan’s house “home”, but the reality was that they had nothing else. He didn’t expect to find much in town. Although he was closer to knowing if his parents were safe, the idea made him uneasy. He had argued for going home since the beginning, but that had been before they’d known anything. Now he almost wished it wasn’t imminent, that he could delay it further and avoid the knowledge. The truth scared him. He was certain they were either dead or diseased. Dead was probably better.

They pulled away from the zombies and accelerated down Starling Road. Dylan opened the notebook again.

“Dad says, ‘In all likelihood, they will decimate the food source and then move on to the next location where food is available.’ Does that mean they’re going to eat everything in town and then move further out, looking for more?”

Callan nodded. As if on cue, they saw two feeders hobbling along the footpath.

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