My Dead World | Book 4 by Druga Jacqueline

My Dead World | Book 4 by Druga Jacqueline

Author:Druga, Jacqueline [Druga, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Infected
Publisher: Vulpine Press
Published: 2021-11-04T16:00:00+00:00


FOURTEEN

BEING HUMAN

Sean

July 30

Nila had a really strange routine of getting up in the morning, walking the property and talking to herself. Actually, she said she talked to Lev. Now I knew she was well aware she wasn’t speaking to his ghost. She was working through her grief, missing him and finding her own way to deal with it.

It bred comments from the others—Fleck stating he thought it was harmful, Ben was keeping an eye out. Me, if she really truly believed she was talking to actual Lev, I’d worry some. But the answers she got from ‘Lev’ were from her years of time with him, her memories of what he would say.

At least that was my take.

Of course, my take was also the cabin was good for Nila. When I had last seen her at The Colony, sure she was healthy, but at the cabin, she looked good, relaxed, had even gained some weight.

But from the moment she decided she couldn’t let Meg die outside the fence, I saw it weighing down on her.

She claimed it was because the infected moved on memory before they died and became deaders, that somehow Meg would unlock the gate if she turned out there. Instead, Nila said to allow Meg to comfortably move to the brink of death and then help her cross before she turned.

Personally, I didn’t buy her reasoning. I think the human being in her was coming out despite the tough act she put on.

She had a little tent and she set it up for Meg far from the cabin. It was so hot out, but Meg was fevered and didn’t know.

Only Nila and I tended to her and checked on her. With the exception of Katie, the others were susceptible to the virus. Ben argued that he was a doctor and he didn’t get it from Lev.

From what I had seen, the virus was mutating and changing fast. There was the possibility that how it was today was not how it would act tomorrow.

Same virus, different actions.

I was told when I was at The Colony that had the current strain been the one loose during the original outbreak, none of us would have survived.

The infected would have turned too fast and there would have been too many of them.

We had discussed the same thing over dinner the previous evening in the cabin, then we talked about the virus.

It was reminiscent of the outbreak days, early on when it was all everyone could think or talk about. I bounced between focusing on June and on the conversation at the table.

I wish I was as ignorant to everything as children were.

In actuality, June and the baby, Christian, were the only ones ignorant about it.

Sawyer and Katie knew it well.

Katie was depressed about it some. Her usually cheerful and bubbly self kept asking, “What happens if they don’t fix the new virus? Will everyone die?”

The grown-up response of, “Don’t worry about it, it will be fine,” wasn’t sitting with her. Of course not, everyone was too focused about it.



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