Chapter 136
The next morning, around daybreak when the color of the black sky visible through the factory’s perforated ceiling began to change...
Arian gazed at Sadie, who had just barely fallen asleep.
In the end, Sadie hadn’t been able to sleep at all the previous night.
Because of Naomi’s death.
What had kept Sadie awake wasn’t simply the fact that someone had died. It was the conflict and hostility that had erupted among the wanderers during that process. That was what had frightened Sadie.
The child had barely grown accustomed to battles against zombies, but not yet to conflicts between people.
So Arian inwardly blamed herself.
If she had been a bit more attentive, she could have prevented Sadie from witnessing such a scene.
“...”
Arian stroked the sleeping Sadie’s hair, using the faint glow of dawn instead of the fading moonlight to survey the other people.
Audrey had fallen asleep from exhaustion beside her mother’s corpse, after crying.
Carter simply gazed vacantly at the mother and daughter pair.