Cadaver 3: A Zombie Apocalypse Thriller by Nick Clausen

Author:Nick Clausen [Clausen, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

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“Oh, Ella …” Marit sobs. She reaches out her hands as though she’s about to step into the bathroom and embrace her.

Ella points at her. “No. Stay back.” Her voice is firm. “Don’t touch me.”

Marit flinches. “Jesus,” she whispers, hiding her face in her hands. “Not you too … I’ve lost everybody …”

The old lady comes shuffling into view, wrapping her arm around Marit’s shoulders. She looks in at Ella, a mixture of empathy, disgust and trepidation on her face. “I’m sorry,” she says stiffly. “You should lock yourself in there.” Then she gently pulls Marit from view.

Ella blinks and looks at the black guy, who’s the only one still standing there, looking in at her. “Guess I should,” she mutters, wiping her forehead. Her palm comes away all wet. “Fuck, how couldn’t I have noticed?”

“I didn’t see it, either,” the guy says in a low voice. “I was so focused on him.”

Ella suddenly feels like a stranger in her own body. It’s like her mind is getting ready to leave it. Like it never really belonged there in the first place, but was only renting the space, and now it’s just received an eviction notice: You are hereby notified that you must vacate the premises before the end of the day …

Except she won’t have till the end of the day.

How fast will I go? It took Gunnar a couple of hours. Greta only a few minutes.

“Okay,” Ella says, taking a deep breath. She’s still surprised at how calm she feels. Shouldn’t she be freaking out? She’s probably in a state of shock. “Okay,” she says again. “I suppose … I suppose this is it, then. Could you … would you let me …?” She’s not really sure what she wants to ask the guy for. “Can I see the sky one more time?”

The black guy discreetly gives her the elevator look, ending back up at her face. Then he nods once. “Sure. Come on.”

“No!” the old lady caws, as Ella steps out of the bathroom. “No, you stay in there! What are you doing, letting her out? She’s contagious!”

“I won’t touch any of you,” Ella hears herself say. She feels like an alien that’s just landed from her spaceship. That’s how they’re all looking at her. The lady, the man, Marit—who’s still bawling and muttering how sorry she is. Surprisingly, Ella finds that she feels sorry for her. She’s the one who just lost both her parents—Ella is sure that’s the real reason she’s crying anyway—and she’s also the one who’ll have to go on being afraid and fleeing and fighting for her life. Ella, on the other hand, finds that she has nothing left to fear.

Apparently, when you’re already dead, nothing is a threat to you.

She steps to the windows facing the terrace. Gunnar is still going at the door, and an old woman with most of her chin gone has joined him. Ella expects them to step sideways towards her. But they don’t. Ella goes to stand right in front of Gunnar.

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