Dead Meat | Day 8 by Clausen Nick

Author:Clausen, Nick [Clausen, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2021-05-08T22:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-ONE

Breaking open the wall turns out a whole lot harder than Iver imagined.

He’s been working on it for hours, using different tactics and tools. First, he tried simply smashing his way through the wall using Agnete’s metal candlestick, and while getting through the initial layer of wallpaper and plaster was easy enough, it turned out to be bricks on the inside, and there was no way he would get through that way by hammering it.

Instead he began scratching at the joints using the other end of the candlestick. It was tedious work, but he did seem to make progress; the mortar would slowly crumble and fall away as dust.

The problem was, it took him over an hour to get only one brick loose. When he finally was able to pull it out, the door had started to make that awful cracking sound more and more often.

The hinges on the door turned out to be more durable than Iver first feared. But between the occasional thrust against the door and the sheer pressure of the crowd of zombies, it wouldn’t last for long.

Now, the sun has long since come up and is blazing in through the windows. Adam is awake and crying now and then. Agnete comforts him as best she can, but the boy is hungry. So is Iver. He’s also dead tired and his arms are killing him from working the wall. His palms have grown blisters, but he can’t slow down, so he’s pushing through the pain.

He’s pried free three bricks by now, and just as he begins working on the fourth, the lower hinge on the door gives way. It simply falls off, landing on the floor with a metallic sound.

Iver freezes and stares at it.

The door swings into the room a few inches at the bottom. It’s not enough for any of the zombies to squeeze through, since the upper hinge is still clinging on, but they reach in their arms and grope for anything to grab onto.

Adam begins crying when he sees them.

Agnete picks him up and turns away, looking at Iver with big, scared eyes. “Are we going to make it?”

“Yes,” Iver hears himself say, then he begins hammering away at the bricks. He goes into a frenzy, clubbing the wall like a wild man, feeling the painful jolts run up through his arm, but he doesn’t care, he wants those last two bricks out right now, and he’s not going to relent before they give way.

And they do within half a minute. They loosen up at the same time and plummet through the hole into the bathroom.

“Ready!” Iver shouts, dropping the candlestick and darting a look over at the door, where one guy has now pushed his head through, glaring at them with his white eyes, clapping his teeth hungrily. The door looks like it could give up any second. In fact, Iver can’t tell what’s holding that last hinge in place.

“Give him to me!” Iver shouts, holding out his arms.

“You climb through first,” Agnete says.

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