Great Bitten (Book 2): Survival by Fielding Warren

Author:Fielding, Warren [Fielding, Warren]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Malevolent Press
Published: 2016-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

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We woke up in the chair together. My back was stiff, but it felt surprisingly good to wake up with someone in my arms. I couldn't remember the last time that had happened. I don't think it had ever happened in a chair, not without a bottle of vodka lubricating the night before. I looked down. Karen's head looked incredibly awkward hooked into my chest. She must have been comfortable though. A little wheeze escaped her lips. I smiled. It was the kind of sound you find endearing at the start of a relationship, but infuriating when the boredom seeps in and you start seeing the claws in the kittens. That had been my experience of life thus far. Relationships weren't going to last long enough anymore to experience emotional atrophy. Carla and Rick were evidence enough of that. Rich and his wife were a far better example.

I elected not to move. I couldn't feel my left arm, but I knew as soon as the blood returned to it I would be in a jingo world of white noise pain from shoulder to fingertip. I smacked my lips. My mouth was heavy and mottled, the feeling of cotton wool after you've spent a heavy night of drinking without hydrating properly. There it was again, the booze missing. Had I been an alcoholic in my life before this happened without acknowledging it? The chairs around us were all empty. Sunlight was pouring in through the windows. Karen's storytelling had taken much of our evening. I hoped we hadn't slept in too late. Carla was perched in the doorway. Maybe she had done something to catch my attention. She looked worried. I remembered Isabelle, and that Carla had gone looking for her the night before. I raised my eyebrows at her, letting her know that I was awake. She shuffled over to me and sat down carefully on a seat. She was doing her best not to look at Karen, and whilst her eyes were full of sadness, she couldn't hide at least a small grin.

"You okay?" I whispered the husky voice of the dehydrated.

"I wish I was. Still no sign of Isabelle. It's not like her."

"She might just be hiding out somewhere. The community is a big place."

"Maybe. But that's not like her. I don't like this, Warren. It feels weird."

"I hate to say it, but there's no way of her getting over the wall is there?"

Carla shook her head. "No way. The walls are too high. The only places that you can get over the wall are all used for guard posts. She's too small to go climbing."

"But she's small enough to go a lot of places unnoticed, don't you think?"

"That's not a nice thought either, Warren."

"You're not here to get a hug."

"No, you appear to be fully booked in that department."

I twisted my head at her. The movement jostled Karen, who jerked upright with a start. She blinked sleep out of her eyes and smiled at me blearily.

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