Brown The stench of rotting bodies clung to everything. I ran hard through the ruined streets, boots slamming cracked pavement, chest burning. A Stalker’s claws had cracked my ribs three blocks back. My left arm was numb. I didn’t stop. Pressed against me was a sealed silver case of antibiotics. In this world a dirty cut could kill you in two days. That box was worth more than anything I used to own. It was worth Mavel’s life. “Just hang on,” I whispered through cracked lips. “I got it.” Two miles back I’d watched Zombies tear through an abandoned pharmacy. I used my own blood as bait, drew them off, and crawled through a broken vent to grab the case. Five hours earlier Mavel had collapsed in our camp, shown me a jagged gash on his leg, and begged. “Brown, please. A Stalker got me. It’s infected. If you don’t get clean meds from the city center, I won’t make it through the night.” I loved him. I’d poured everything into turning the old water plant into a fortress so he and Gin
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