Mass Extinction Event (Book 6): Day 100 by Cross Amy

Author:Cross, Amy [Cross, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror | Dystopian
Published: 2018-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

2pm

Elizabeth

“You said Mom was in a taxi,” I say cautiously, watching Dad's face as he in turns stares back at me. We're in one of the bunk rooms, which is empty since everyone else is out on duty. “You said she turned into one of those things, and that she was...”

My voice trails off for a moment.

Even though I wasn't there when Mom died, I have a really strong mental image of her trapped in a taxi. I imagine her falling sick, then returning later as one of those creatures. Eventually soldiers found her and eliminated her. That image has been going around and around in my head for so long now, even haunting my nightmares. Yet now it seems that things might not have happened that way at all.

“You said she was dealt with,” I add finally, as I feel tears in my eyes.

“Most of what I told you was true,” he says, “up until that point. After that, however, it gets a little more difficult. A team did indeed find your mother in a taxi, and she had indeed become one of those things. But somehow during the encounter, she got a jump on one of the soldiers.”

I wait for him to continue.

“What does that mean?” I ask cautiously.

“It means she attacked him.”

I flinch.

“Mom wouldn't do that,” I tell him.

“It wasn't really her, not by that point.”

“Mom wouldn't attack someone!”

“It wasn't really -”

“She wouldn't!” I yell.

He sighs.

“I don't know why, but you're lying,” I continue. “You have to be. You always lie.”

“Your mother was last seen stumbling away from that taxi,” he explains, and now he looks as if he too is on the verge of breaking down. “After that, there was a clean-up operation that got rid of most of the zombies, but nobody had time to stop and catalog them all. A few escaped. They left the city and wandered into areas that still haven't been reclaimed. If it's any consolation, Elizabeth, any of the zombies from the initial outbreak would now be in a very bad state. They might even have become immobile.”

“So you mean...”

Staring at him, I feel a sense of nausea in the pit of my belly as I realize what he's suggesting.

“So you mean,” I say cautiously, struggling to keep from bursting into tears, “that she might still be out there somewhere? As a zombie?”

“It's highly likely that she was destroyed in the initial round-up.”

“But you don't know that for sure.”

He pauses, before shaking his head.

“And you can never know that,” I continue. “Not until those other areas have been checked.”

“The zombies in those areas will be destroyed,” he replies.

“You mean killed?”

“There's really nothing that can be done for them, other than putting them out of their misery. They'll be eliminated and then burnt. Checking them all, one by one, would simply be too draining on resources and too dangerous. At some point, we all have to make decisions that we'd maybe prefer we didn't have to make.”

“But what if Mom's still out there?”

“You have to accept the uncertainty, Lizzie.

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