The people sleeping started waking up before Adam could get over his shock. The sword stood stuck in the glass wall, wiggling as if it was expecting Adam to take action. “What the hell?” Adam heard behind him as he reached out to touch the sword. The sword wiggled in his hand and slid down, pulling Adam with it. There was a clean slit in the glass and true fresh air swept in through the hole, unlike the doctored oxygen that had been filtering into the cubicle since they were locked in. “What the hell is going on?” Clint shouted all of a sudden as he looked across the cubicle and saw Ray snarling and grunting with the other zombies. “Keep your mouth shut unless you want them to come back and do the same to you” Adam whispered urgently. He could hear shocked gasps behind him as the others' attention were caught by what Clint had seen. “Those fuckers did this to us while we were asleep, didn’t they? I told you our sleeping pattern is not normal!” It was the first time Morris ha

Adam could feel the moment he stepped into the centre. His sharpened hearing could pick the difference in the vibrations of the whole centre. It was as if the whole centre held its breath in anticipation. Footsteps resounded down the hallway. Then Adam heard a trembling voice from afar “I am sorry, young master. I thought it would work this time around. I…please give me another chance to try again” The sound of something being dragged across the centre got closer seconds before the door crashed inward. “Young master, please. I…” A grunt followed as Carson was thrown hard against the floor. He hit his face against the floor so hard that blood trailed from his mouth as he raised his head. His wrinkled, white coat was stained with a spot of blood and his face looked like it had received a couple of punches already. “Asshole” Adam heard Layla muttered under her breath. He had no idea if she was referring to Carson or the young man who walked casually to Carson and turned him ov

Lisa and Nina slept for the rest of the journey.With Lisa’s head on Nina’s shoulder, the twins held each other tightly even in sleep, as if they still couldn’t believe that they were finally safe.Jeremy was with them at the back, staring into space when he was not looking out of the window.“I still think you shouldn’t have shot him!” Adam said it with an exasperated sigh.“Relax,” Layla said with a grin.Then, in a swift change of mood, she added, “He deserved it. Dr. Saman was a good man.” The way she said it made Adam look over at her.He wondered if they had more than a lecturer-student relationship.As if she could read his mind, she turned back to him and said, “Oh, take your mind out of the gutter. I wasn’t fucking him. He was just...kind to me.” “Hmm,” Adam said as he concentrated on the road.Not that it was any concern of his anyway.All he wanted was to get back to his parents.He had his backpack with him now, with the medication still intact.He just needed to get it

Adam used all his strength to push the zombies blocking the door back.He held on tightly to the car door and pushed.“Duck!” Layla shouted.Adam automatically bent his head.His ears rang with the succession of gunshots she fired.The zombies at the front fell hard against each other.Adam quickly took advantage of the space they created.“Lock it!” he yelled as he shut the door.To distract the zombies, he ran as far as possible from the car.They all followed him.He wished the people in the car had already disguised themselves.When he could feel his lungs burning from too much running, he turned back and started picking out the zombies one after the other.The Claymore sword danced, slashed, and cut into flesh as the growls and snarls around Adam became so much that he couldn’t differentiate where one started and another ended.Core after core rolled out of the zombies, and the storehouse increased.Adam didn’t give a damn anyway because he was busy fighting for his life.Once th

Layla is a mad woman.Adam was sure of it by the time the car finally slowed down, more than an hour later.She had driven out of Spartan like she was done with life and wouldn’t mind dying while behind the wheels.Adam could hear the muffled voices coming from the interior of the carIt would be raised in an argument at some point.It would in turn be cut short by a tinny cry.Then silence.Then a blast of shots as Layla shoots at random zombies on the road.She was speeding over road bumps and potholes.Adam knew when they entered Maradoit.There were a few potholes in the road that residents filled from time to time with sand and cement before they got swept away and needed refilling again.Every resident of Maradoit knew to automatically maneuver their way around those potholes.Layla rammed the car into and over those potholes, not minding what was going to happen.The car rocked, groaned, and jolted as she drove.Adam felt each bump and jolt.By the time the car stopped, he ache