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me.
    “Why don’t you have the choppers open fire on the horde?” I
asked.
    “Because we aren’t exactly sure where Jaxon is in the mass,
it’s jumbled and chaotic; they are moving fast and traveling through alleys,
backyards and homes. We could end up hitting Jaxon by mistake.”
    “So what are you going to do?” I asked.
    “We are hoping that he will lose his pursuers and find a way
to contact us.”
    “I want you to keep me informed on this. In the meantime, I
have an extraction. It’s a man and woman, the woman is infected, so we’ll wait
that out and take care of it. It probably shouldn’t take too long.”
    “Right, we’re on top of it, we’ve already located the
nearest extraction point.”
    I forgot about the damn cameras again.
    “Alright, we’re going to stay here until tomorrow evening,
just in case Jax makes his way back.”
    I finally went back inside the house as the sun rose in the
sky and had everyone gather up in the living room. The poor girl’s parents were
filled with grief. I had Kingsley and Javie move all the corpses we’d shot up
to the front and back exit of the house in an attempt to mask the smell of the
living people inside. I wasn’t sure it would work, but they smelled pretty bad
to me. Hopefully if a shambler happened to walk by, they wouldn’t be able to
sniff us out.
    Those things have some serious nose power.
    When all was said and done, we all settled down to rest. The
team took turns on guard duty. Fortunately, nothing exciting came our way, and
we were able to relax a bit. I was even able to get some food and liquids into
Michelle.
    “ Michelle is the
girl’s mother ?”
    Yeah, Adam’s wife, I finally got her name. She was actually
starting to look a lot better. I couldn’t explain it; I thought for sure she
was a dead woman. I was seriously out of my depth here, so after examining her
wound again and applying some antibiotic, I gave my earpiece a tap.
    “This is Miriam.”
    I was expecting Hardin. To be honest, I really didn’t know
Miriam all that well and I’m not sure if we had ever even spoken.
    Dudley is well known
to be very quiet around people he doesn’t know. However, that all changes once
he becomes used to them. When that happens, well, everyone tells me that they
need some earplugs if they expect to get any sleep .
    “I was looking for Hardin,” I said.
    “He’s taking a break. Is this about Jaxon?”
    I had been pestering them all morning for information about
my uncle. They were probably getting pretty tired of me, and I was getting
pretty sick of them not having anything new to tell. That last decent bit I
heard came shortly after sunup and all they knew for certain was that the large
group of undead in pursuit of my uncle had broken up and begun to disperse.
    “ There was no sign of
the General ?”
    None. He seemed to have vanished, and the zombies were going
back to doing whatever it is that zombies like to do when they aren’t chasing
and eating people. On the plus side, when the sun came up enough to see
clearly, the helicopter was able to fire into the remaining groups of shamblers
and start dwindling down their numbers.
    “ Were you worried ?”
    A little bit, but I knew he got away. If he got caught, they
would have seen that massive horde come to an abrupt stop while they ripped
into him. They don’t need to positively identify someone to know whether or not
they are being devoured.
    My worry was how he was going to find his way back in
hostile territory. When the horde finally began to disperse, they were miles
and miles away on the opposite side of Mesa towards the Sunland Park Mall. Go
ahead and feel free to insert a number of mall related zombie jokes.
    I’m sure everyone will
get his reference, so I’m not going to explain it .
    “ It wouldn’t be very
original if he hid inside a mall would it ?”
    Absolutely not, and if Jaxon is anything, he’s original.
    This, however, wasn’t about Jaxon. This was about