Chapter 422: Make An Exception
That night, Security at New Dawn Sanctuary didn’t sleep at all. First, it just started with one male who went AWOL. Apparently, Sam hadn’t cleared it with the person in charge of him and was ’absent without leave’.
They had searched for him for two hours before determining that he was no longer on the Sanctuary side of everything. But while they looked for him, another male, at another dormitory, as well as a female, simply disappeared.
They were there in their beds for last roll-call and lights’ out, but when staff checked on them in the middle of the night, they were simply gone.
"Where the fuck could they have gone?" snarled Walt as he paced back and forth in front of Eric’s desk. "People don’t just disappear like that."
"Sure they do," chuckled Eric as he stared at the canister in his hand. It took Adam less than two hours to create an insect spray. The only problem was that it was created using zombie DNA as the repellent, so neither man knew if it would work or simply make a bigger problem. "It’s the zombie apocalypse. People disappear all the time... mostly to end up in a zombie’s stomach."
"I wish," growled Walt. "This zombie apocalypse is nothing more than a joke. When was the last time you actually saw a zombie? Go on, think about it. I’ll wait."
Eric snorted, not bothering to tell his friend that there was at least 200 in the basement. "So, what’s your wish? You want the missing people to be in a zombie’s stomach?"
"No," sighed Walt, dropping into the chair in front of Eric. "I just want something fun and interesting to happen. I mean, it was only not having TV when you were fighting zombies, but now there’s nothing to do at night."
"Have you tried sleeping?" suggested Eric, feeling a disturbance in the shadows behind him. The little girl was getting better and better at surprising him. He couldn’t stop the soft smile on his face, even if he tried.