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People — no, Infected — were gathering in a pack fifty yards away, facing us. They abandoned their madnesses, and came to clump together and stare at us. I fought down a shiver, as more and more of them joined the group. Forty, fifty, more, all of them standing there and gazing. All the officers around me were shouldering weapons, and I wished I’d thought to at least bring a pistol up.
“JOHN LEMUEL TAYLOR,” they said, in a voice that would level mountains.
“Fuck. Me.” I tried to force my fists to unclench.
“JOHN LEMUEL TAYLOR,” they groaned again. “YOU WILL BE UNTOUCHED. UNHARMED. COME.”
I stared at them. It. Whatever. A bow was fluttering in a pretty brunette’s hair, her left hand a mangled wreck of torn flesh, her eyes as empty as midnight. A tall guy a couple of places behind her was missing half his teeth.
“JOIN THE PARTY, JOHN TAYLOR. JOIN THE DANCE.”
I flinched, and the temperature seemed to drop five degrees. “They have to be joking,” I said, to no-one in particular. I flipped them the bird. “You have to be fucking joking,” I yelled.
“AHHHHHHHH.” The sigh trailed off slowly into silence, and then the pack went insane. Several vicious maulings immediately broke out, whilst other members giggled or wailed or started dancing or just wandered off. Within moments, the group were little more than a slightly denser knot in the riot.
I smoothed my hair back, and grimaced. “Fuck. That was odd.” I looked round at the security officers, and discovered that they were in a loose ring around me, guns pointed straight at my face. I blinked. “Guys?”
“Shut up,” said the tall one. “Come with us, and do exactly what we say.”
I thought about it, and decided to...
- ... give her the very basics. (71%)
- ... give her my best attempt at charm. (18%)
- ... give her the full story. (12%)
- ... give her nothing. (-1%)
Voting Closes at: September 2, 2010 @ 11:00 am
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