Exodus by Courtney McPhail

Author:Courtney McPhail [McPhail, Courtney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2015-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Subject File # 742

Administrator - You seem to wear responsibility like a glove.

Subject - Yeah, I suppose that’s true. I’ve always had to be responsible for something or someone. It starts to come naturally after a while.

Administrator - Do you ever want to step back, let someone else take responsibility?

Subject - I’ve tried. It didn’t work so well. I can tell myself it’s on someone else’s shoulders again and again but I still feel responsible. I guess that’s my tragic flaw.

The hiss of the respirator echoed in the operating room followed by the electronic beep of the heart monitor that sounded off in a steady rhythm. Craig had been under for thirty minutes and things seemed to be going well. Malcolm knew very little about surgery but he could tell by Quinton’s steady and sure movements that he knew what he was doing.

“You know, I’ve been thinking,” Quinton said, eyes staying on Craig’s open abdomen. “Your man Jose said that the guys who attacked called you looters and claimed that the town was theirs.”

“Makes sense. Anyone who ignored the evacuation order made the choice to make a stand. They aren’t going to want outsiders to come in and take what they see as theirs.”

“Exactly. And if you were in their shoes, wouldn’t you have your men guarding the stores? Jose said they came out of nowhere in a truck. To me, that sounds like they have a mobile patrol instead of a standing guard. Why though?”

It was a good point. Had they been fifteen minutes later, they would have been long gone and the patrol never would have spotted them. If the supplies were so important, why leave them out for easy access by strangers?

“Maybe they are just psychopaths who get off on killing people,” Alan said from his reclined position on the floor, his face pale due to the blood they had taken. “They leave that shit out as bait to lure people in.”

It was possible. Disasters could bring out the good in people and they could also bring out the very worst. He wouldn’t put it past the kind of men who would try to kidnap a woman to lure innocent people to their deaths.

That added another wrinkle to their already messy situation. They were a man and a vehicle down. Their group was split across town and they had a roving band of lunatics out there looking for them. The radio on his hip beeped, signalling an incoming message and the others all stopped to listen.

“Malcolm, it’s Travis. Over.”

“What’s up?” he asked, holding his breath as he waited in the silence.

“Some freaks showed up here to gnaw on the body outside. They didn’t make it inside but there might be more that show up. We’re going to come your way.”

“Hold up, I want to talk to my sister before you do anything,” Quinton called out while his focus still remained on his patient.

“Doc wants to talk to his sister,” Malcolm said. “Put her on.”

“Quint, it’s okay. We’ve got to move out of here.

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