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say there's an
exceptionally good chance the whole lot of them are all
together.'
    'Could they have got out of the village?'
    'Impossible. There's only the one road in and out. Where it
meets the coast road on its way along the cliff top, we've set up a
roadblock at the crossroads. That's where our main camp is. It's
pretty barren country up there. Anyone escaping in daylight would
have been seen and caught.'
    'Just as I thought,' Graham said to himself.
    'What about night time?'
    'We've got sentries with night scopes and infra-red cameras
covering the whole area. No-one will get through.'
    'Good, so, if they're somewhere in Kilkorne, you'll find
them.'
    'How are things going at Breathdeep?'
    'I've had the Minister on my neck all day. I haven't told him
quite how many escaped. If he had any idea it was closer to five
hundred, you'd have been sent over to arrest me.'
    'We go back a long way, Albert, that's not on the
cards.'
    'Thanks, Doug. We're not out of the woods yet. There's the ten
from Kilkorne need to be found, dead or alive and there's a hundred
or so zombies at large in the county. I've set up a cordon at a
fifty mile radius, so sooner or later we'll get them
all.'
    'How about the UV for detecting zombie blood?'
    'Yes, you can start using the lamps we've got over here.
Special order, high power jobs, can be used in daylight. There's
about sixty crates of equipment.'
    'Transport?'
    'Send a couple of trucks, Doug, that would do it. What
time?'
    'We'll dispatch three six tonners at four a.m.'
    'Perfect.'
    Graham turned off the scanner and sat quietly for several
minutes. It looked like the second part of his plan had just fallen
into place.

Chapter 11: Until 4 a.m.
    It took Graham half an hour in all to wake Janet, make her a
coffee and go through his plan with her.
    'Honestly, I can't see any other way out,' he said. 'Even if
we walked, they'd still catch us. Like the guy said, it's all
barren grassland up top, and we'd be even easier to spot at
night.'
    'So, you're saying we prepare the van, push it off down the
lane and, assuming we're not seen, roll it down to Side Valley
Road, start the engine and drive round to the bottom of the cliff
road then wait for the 4 a.m. convoy?'
    'That's the easy part.'
    'Assuming we can pull in at the back of the convoy without
drawing attention to ourselves when they go past, how do we get
through the roadblock?'
    'There'll only be one person in the cab playing the part of
the grocer's delivery driver, whoever we decide that's going to be.
They'll just have to wing it. Even if they get caught, everyone
else in the back may have a chance to slip away later.'
    'I wish we could get hold of an army uniform.'
    'There's just no way we're going to be that lucky, we'll just
have to bluff our way through.'
    'Well, if we get past safely, all we'll have to do is
quarantine ourselves for the maximum incubation period, then we'll
be able to prove we're not infected.'
     
    It turned out not to be that difficult to rouse everyone else
and persuade them to try Graham's plan because it was just not very
comfortable sleeping on the floor in the castle keep. Another half
hour later, everyone was up and heading down the tunnel out into
the field, creeping along past the sentry post, back through the
woods and into the school yard. They all got a terrible scare when
they opened the rear doors of the van to rearrange the boxes. The
caretaker's cat had been trapped inside and leapt out with a
hideous yowl the instant it saw a way out.
    'First I think we should push the van round,' Alex said. 'so
it's ready in the direction we want it to go.'
    'Like why do we have to do that?'
    'Because while we're organising the boxes in the back, it'll
be less likely that anyone will see us with the torch lit in
there.'
    At ten to four, the van was lined up at the end of Side Valley
Road, a few yards back from the junction with the main road out of
the village. Sarah had been chosen to drive, with everyone else
hidden