Normally, I reserve Thursdays for our
Zombiology entries but I cannot begin to even think about that right now. We
have made a horrible mistake. This morning, they found a breach in our defenses
and it cost us four of our members.
This is the only scenario that I can
cook up. While we recycle a large majority of our trash, we do still throw
stuff away. We have a trash compactor with a bin that is about the size of a
tractor trailer. Then an 18-wheeler comes along and hauls it off when it gets
full. It lays flat on the ground so the angle down from the back room stock
floor to the bin itself is about 30-degrees. Sure, the metal was rusted and
old. We never thought a zom would be strong enough to pry their way through
into get inside.
But near as we can tell, that is what
happened. I don’t know if the latch gave way or how they got in but one zom was
ambitious and made it in. It was early in the morning. Half of us weren’t even
awake. Janet had climbed down off the freezer top to go to the bathroom and
start her morning ritual. The zom got her. The screams that issued from her and
from the zom are tattooed on my brain.
Apparently, working as a scout, the
zom made some sort of keening scream that signaled to the others. The next
thing we knew, zoms were streaming in through the entry to the trash compactor.
I don’t know how graphic I could get.
Tommy Holt knew the score. He knew that without that hatch to the trash
compactor closed, we could have been overrun. So while people were trying to
stop the zoms that were already in the store, Tommy went to push back the horde
and get that hatch closed. In doing so, he received a bite to his arm.
The zombie that made it in first
attacked Janet like a starving animal. It was like it was a solo shark in a
feeding frenzy. It was as many savage bites as possible and when it got to her
neck… that was it. Janet was gone before we could clear out the rest of the
zoms.
But before Tommy could get that hatch
closed, it was a stream of zoms pouring through that hatch. We had to beat
these things back with hand-to-hand melee combat. We didn’t want to hit people
with crossfire or risk damaging things with firearms so we went hand to hand.
Ashlynn got caught by too many. She
stabbed one straight through the brain with the pick axe that she liked to use.
When the zom tumbled backward, she lost her grip on the weapon and too many
descended upon her. We just couldn’t save her. She bled out from the multiple
bite wounds. We did our best to make her comfortable but there was nothing we
could do.
Becca Cason sustained too much contact
with zombie blood in the melee battles. She wasn’t bit. But she got tainted
blood in her eyes and mouth. We are trying to keep her calm but she is already
showing signs of contamination.
Jennifer also received a nasty scratch on her
arm. We are not certain is she is contaminated or not. I guess we need to get
her in quarantine.
How did this happen? How were we so
stupid? How did we miss this?
