The Undead Thirty-One. Winchester: Season Five. The Rain by RR Haywood

Author:RR Haywood [Haywood, RR]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 1899 Inc Ltd
Published: 2024-06-07T00:00:00+00:00

Mike comes to a stop. Holding a clenched fist up as the signal to hold. Sophie behind him. The best at running within their group, which is why she was chosen to go with Mike.

He peers out of the side street, then ducks back quickly as Sophie takes her turn to spot dozens of infected shuffling past the end of the road. She pulls back. Feeling a thrum inside at the mission being executed to plan.

They woke in the hotel after that first battle and realised they’d slept for nearly twelve hours, but when night came, they heard the infected howl and knew more had come into the town centre, which, in turn, made them realise they again needed to find somewhere safer, and they also desperately needed the ammunition from the Armed Response Vehicles.

Now, a few days later, they finally get the magazines out, with Craig, Kev, and Olivia keeping watch while Bev unloads the gun boxes, and Mike and Sophie work their way to the train station, using the alleys and passages Mike has spent fifteen years sleeping rough in.

They clamber over another wall onto Swan Lane with a view to Station Road and the train carriages. Craig spots them first with a quiet word to the others, who look over with nods and waves.

Sophie waves back as Mike grins, spotting Bev coming out of the marked police car with a rucksack. ‘We did it,’ Sophie says.

‘Aye, looks that way,’ Mike says, turning to see the back of the horde still shuffling away.

The pattern of their behaviour now established. The infected go slow and sluggish in the day. If you get too close, they’ll move quick and pounce, but otherwise, they don’t have good control. It’s at night when they become the dangerous predators. That’s why Bev gets her team scavenging in the day and safely hunkered down in time for the night. And that’s after laying false scent trails and using water to douse their routes.

It's given them hope that they can survive. That they can find a way to work around the beasts until they surely die because, as the Doc said, all living things must drink and eat, so it’s only a matter of time before even they perish.

But it looks like this mission at least is a success, and he grins at the others as he and Sophie jog towards them. The heat bearing down. The sun glaring overhead. Mike blinks. Seeing the infected change in an instant.

Kev. Craig. Olivia. All three of them showing the same alarm in the same exact instance at the sight of the horde stopping and turning to stare back. All of them with heads upright and eyes fixed and no longer sluggish. An instant transformation that makes the hairs on their necks stand on end while horror creeps up their spines.

Because it’s daytime.

Not night.

This isn’t the pattern.

Something has changed.

The infected screech as one and commence their charge. Ramped. Hungry. Violent. Evil and fast. Mike runs too as they all aim for Sussex Street.

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