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street.  As Tobias watched, a man went running down the centreline of the road.  Close on his heels was a woman with blood running all down her front.  Her teeth were bared and she kept reaching out, trying to grab the terrified man.  They were gone before Tobias could even think about doing something.  He just hoped the man wouldn’t trip.
    When Tobias and Tammy reached the corner, they started heading down a new street.  The mayhem continued block by block, but so far, no one paid any attention to them.  The crowd thinned out the farther they got from the park, until they finally reached a pocket where they had a considerable amount of space between them and the next group of people.
    As they passed in front of an alleyway, a bloodcurdling scream burst out of it.  They both turned and found at least five people clawing and biting at what must have been a sixth down on the ground.  One of the attackers was the screamer.  She stood up and started running at them.
    “GO!”  Tobias pulled on Tammy’s hand, half dragging her, as he started to run.  Thankfully, Tammy kept pace, because all five of the attackers ran out of the alley and started chasing after the two of them.
    “Drop the camera!” Tammy shouted as she took a quick, panicked look over her shoulder.
    “I can’t just drop it!  It’s strapped to my waist!”  Tobias cursed the harness that helped hold his gear.  “You go!”
    “What?”  Tammy looked up at Tobias.
    “You go ahead!  Get to the subway!  I'll draw them off!”
    “But...”
    Tobias let go of Tammy’s hand and half shoved her ahead of him.  “Just do it before I change my mind!”
    After one last look at Tobias, Tammy took off at a speed Tobias couldn’t match even without the camera.  He headed into the clog of cars hoping his pursuers weren’t as agile.  It turned out to be a good idea.  One nearly had him but she clipped her hip on a bumper and was completely spun around.  Too bad, she didn’t stay that way, because she quickly resumed the chase.  Tobias weaved around the cars, but he knew he couldn’t keep it up forever.  It was like when he was in high school and played for the school’s football team.  Only this time, the goal posts were nowhere to be seen, and his camera weighed a lot more than a football.  Not to mention that being tackled meant losing his life.
    He finally spotted a pizza shop that had its door open.  He headed straight for it, listening to his pursuers pounding along behind him.  Tobias rounded one last, sharp turn and headed straight into the pizza shop.
    The reason the door was open was because the door had been ripped off.  Shit, well there went that protection.
    He spotted a door in the back and jumped over the counter.  Here was the agility he had been missing earlier when hopping off the wall.  Apparently, he just needed even more adrenaline for it.  His pursuers slammed into the waist-high counter, knocking themselves flat across the top of it.  Any normal person would have been badly hurt and winded, but these guys just started crawling across the counter as if nothing had happened.
    Tobias ran into the back room and slammed the door shut.  Great, this one had no lock.  The first thing he spotted was stairs, so he decided to head up.  If he had taken more time to look around, he might have spotted an exit door in the back of the kitchen.  It was too late now though.
    Tobias climbed flight after flight, listening to the sound of the others coming after him.  They must be getting tired, right?  Tobias was exhausted, so shouldn’t they be as well?  There were just too many stairs.
    Finally, he reached the top of the stairwell and burst out through the door up there.  He was in sunlight, up on the roof.  Nearby were several wooden beams, and without thinking about what they might be for, Tobias started bracing them against the door.  Someone thumped into the other side and started hammering away just as the last