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bandage.
    “If you get the sudden urge to eat me, give me a warning,” I
said as I pulled back the bandage.
    Underneath, was a nasty ass bite, but it didn’t look
infected. Zombie bites normally fill up with pus and turn all sorts of nasty
colors within about twenty minutes after the attack. This bite just looked like
an injury.
    “Were you attacked at the same time as your daughter?” I
asked.
    “No, my daughter was attacked today. We left our last hiding
place because we kept hearing footsteps on the roof. We thought it might be the
same zombie that had bitten me. After I was attacked, Adam boarded up all the
windows. The thing on the roof seemed like it was looking for a way in. After a
couple nights of it returning over and over again, we decided to find a safer
place. Adam carried me the entire way. We only wanted to keep our little girl
safe.”
    “Of course,” I said. “What else could you do? It’s not your
fault, so don’t ever go and start thinking that way.”
    She started crying.
    “I’m not sure what to do, let me talk to my teammate,” I
said. When in doubt, I figured that I might as well be honest.
    The Regulators have a strict policy when someone gets
bitten. We absolutely do not put them down until they turn. I had no problems
pulling out the father, but there was unfortunately nothing I could do for the
mother and daughter because we also had a strict policy about not extracting
infected people. Well, I take it back. There was something I could do for them.
It just wasn’t going to be easy.
    I pulled Georgie into a brief conference. He agreed with me
about evacuating the father and putting down the daughter. However, he
absolutely did not want to be the one to do it. He had a daughter of his own
and the very thought of shooting a child was too disturbing for him. As far as
the mother was concerned, we were gonna wait for her to turn and put her down
as well.
    We gave them some space to say their goodbyes, but we kept
our eyes on them all the same in case they did something foolish in their
grief. It was a pretty emotional scene, I don’t really want to get into it, but
it deeply affected both Georgie and I.
    After their farewells were said, Georgie helped Adam move
his wife back inside the house where Kingsley and Javie were waiting. Though
she seemed rather weak, she had none of the joint pains that other infected
people seemed to acquire very shortly after being bitten. I had no idea what to
make of the situation.
    Finally, I was left alone on the roof with their child. I
wanted to do it quickly and be done with it. I rushed towards her and raised my
rifle, but I couldn’t fire. It was a child. I didn’t want to shoot a child.
Yet, I had to do it. I had to do the right thing by that little girl and her
parents.
    It took a while, but I finally mustered up enough courage
and put her out of her misery. There was no loud bang, just a muffled thump as
the bullet traveled through the rifles silencer. Her life was over.
    “ Her life was over
when she was bitten .”
    Yeah, that’s what Jax always tells us.
    Anyway, I was a little sullen after that. I needed a moment
by myself before I rejoined the team, so I just sort of sat there on the roof
for awhile and waited for the sun to start trying to peak out over the
mountains.
    It wasn’t long before Hardin was talking in my ear.
    “Dudley, are you okay?”
    “Yeah,” I answered.
    “I saw everything. You did the right thing.”
    I always forget that our ear pieces also have small cameras.
I made a mental note to remember that the next time I had to pee.
    Then all of a sudden it hit me.
    “Where’s Jaxon?” I asked.
    “We lost contact with him as soon as he charged the horde.
We have air support tracking the mass right now.”
    That’s when I realized that I completely forgot about my ear
piece radio. I hadn’t tried contacting my uncle since we first entered the
house. I needed to quit making mistakes, people were depending on