Dead Days [Season 11] by Casey Ryan

Author:Casey, Ryan [Casey, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Higher Bank Books
Published: 2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Riley looked through the bars of the cell at Peter Hillson.

He was sitting back against the wall, hands on his knees, bandage around his gunshot leg. A look of acceptance across his face more than anything. Like he knew what his fate was going to be. He knew how this was going to go.

That there was only one possible ending for him.

“I want to hear it all,” Riley said. “Your motives. Your reasons for doing what you’ve done. All of it. And I want it from the start.”

Peter sighed. Didn’t look all that opposed to talking with Riley. Didn’t look hateful, vengeful, anything like that.

He just looked like he accepted his fate.

“I’ve been in communication with Xanthe for a long time,” Peter said. “She was… one of the first we gifted with the advanced form of the virus. A form that eradicated the old forms. That acted as both a cure, initially. But then it changed. It changed into something… stronger.

“And my first instinct was to banish those who had it. But there was something about this strain of the virus. Something… something about Xanthe in particular. She seemed to want something. To crave something that went beyond mere flesh and blood. She had this urge to convert people. To make them see her way. And that’s when I saw it. The people she was turning. The ones she was infecting. It was the virus itself. Personified. Narcissus.

“I kept in contact with her. Monitored her, closely. And it was only when I stumbled upon the answer almost by accident that I realised what it was she had a hunger for. What it was she needed.”

Riley sighed. “I’m guessing that’s where I come in?”

“Yourself,” Peter said. “Rhubi. Kesha. Your DNA and blood types, as well as other strands and characteristics that we were studying right here… they combine, create a kind of beacon. All that beacon needs is to be absorbed by someone with the Narcissus form. As long as they are around plenty of other people and creatures… a chain reaction will begin almost immediately. It’s almost like a silent nuclear bomb in viral form. So that’s the plan. That’s the goal. And Narcissus. It won’t stop for anyone. Nothing will stand in its way.”

Riley felt unease creep through him with those words. What they implied. “And if Narcissus doesn’t get what it wants?”

Peter just smiled. “It will. And you’ll see the beauty of it, in time. You’ll wonder why you ever resisted it. Why you ever even tried to fight it. Just like I did.”

Riley shook his head. Brushed a hand through his hair. “Ted,” he said. “My friend. He died. He died because you wanted to see this virus spread.”

“And he died for a noble cause.”

Riley opened the gate, and he lunged at Peter. Held the rifle right up to his chin. “Don’t you dare even make that suggestion.”

“Think about it, Riley. No more pain. No more suffering. Everyone acting in the best interests of the world we’re on.

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