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Sloane tries to lead us to the car but I grab her arm and drag her away with me, finding time to hope in the frenzy that she just broke from the big picture, forgot that the front of the house is surrounded. That she wasn’t going to offer herself, like she tried to once before, back at the school. We stumble crazily through the backyard, headed for the woods ahead of us. I feel like we could lose them in the trees, like that would be enough to stop them. The infected give chase and I won’t look back, can’t. Hearing them is enough, a cacophony of breathless shrieking that all means one thing: mine, mine, mine.
“How long you been ready?” I ask.
“Working on this since the towers fell,” Jess replies. “My father died that day.”
“You were waiting for another terrorist attack?”
“What makes you think this isn’t one?” he asks. He spoons some stew into his mouth, swallows, and shrugs. “I was waiting for SHTF. Could be a terrorist attack or civil war, government going crazy, the economic collapse, a pandemic. Everything but zombies.”
“She must see something in you. Ainsley. Because she just—she really went inside herself after we lost him. I didn’t know a four-year-old could do that. That night she tried to give you the book, Lisa lost it. Told me we should keep you around because who knows, maybe she’d start talking again.” His voice cracks. “She’s got the sweetest voice.”
“I’ll bet.” I rub the back of my neck.
“Are they chasing something?” I ask.
I step forward, trying to get a better look, but Jess holds his arm out, keeps me back. “It’s an animal, most likely.”
“How do you know?”
“If it wasn’t, we’d hear the screams.”
The only thing I’ve got inside me for this is horror.
They have a kid.
These poor fucking saps.
“LisaLisaLisaLisaLisa,” he says, his voice stuffy with tears and snot. “Lisa. Look at me. I love you.”
He shoots her in the head.
“We’ve been moving since it started. We had a vehicle for a while and then we didn’t,” he says. “Won’t try for one of those again. Staying on roads is trouble. We went deeper into the woods and we run into a lot less of it now.”