Human Zombies: The Compound by Nicholas Dileo Jr

Author:Nicholas Dileo Jr
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Published: 2013-04-29T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

I awoke from my slumber and struggled to get to my feet. But something was holding me back. I realized my hands had been bound behind me, around a column of some sort. The room was pitch black and the stench was overwhelming. It took but all of my strength to hold back from vomiting. My legs were stretched out in front of me and I could feel a hard object in front of me, that I could only assume was a wall. I slowly began moving around the column to position myself towards what I was hoping might be the other side of a room. After an eternity of struggling I had finally made my way to the other side of the column. I must have been at the end of a large room because I could see light faintly on the floor from underneath a doorway.

“Hello?” I said.

There was no response.

“Is anyone there?” I spoke in a louder tone.

“HELLO?! IS ANYONE THERE? I’M ALIVE IN HERE!”

Were they ignoring me? Maybe they thought I was a threat. Or had they saved me only to leave me here to die?

I sat and waited but no one came.

“I guess this is it.” I said to myself.

Abruptly I heard a noise in the shadows.

“Who’s there!?” I asked.

There was no response.

“I know someone’s there.” I said.

I heard nothing but laughter. Then they spoke.

“Have some pride in yourself. Leaving the world crying, like the baby you were when you entered it; despicable.”

“Who are you?” I asked.

“Just a man, like you, in this dark room waiting to expire. But at least with some pride, unlike you.”

“How did you get here?”

“They put me here just like you.”

“But why?”

“The same reason they put you here.”

“And why is that?”

“Because Dorian sent us.”

“Dorian didn’t send me here.”

“That’s the story I tried when they found me out as well.”

“I’m not lying.”

“I said that too.”

“I had only been in The Compound for a few days before I escaped.”

“I tried to tell them that too but they saw right through me.”

“I’m not lying.”

“There’s no use lying.”

“If they didn’t believe me they won’t believe you.”

“I’m not like you.”

“Yes you are.”

“How is that?”

“We’re both going to die here.”

From that point on there was silence. For all I knew the man in the shadows had expired. There was no way to know because of the foul stench of death that was already in the air; good riddance.

The room was silent for hours. So silent that it could drive a man insane. The light from underneath the door had gone out hours before. It must be night. But there was no way to be sure. Silence. Darkness. Alone. Life. Death. Death. Death. All I had was death. How long had I slept? Was it day? Was it night? Life. Death. Alone. Silence. Where was the man in the shadows? Was he here? Had he died? Was he real? Had I imagined him? I hated him. He was mocking me. I wasn’t like him. He wasn’t like me.

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