Dead Weight
Maya was in the supply room, counting soap, because apparently romance was dead but hygiene had survived and become everyone’s problem.
“Bitten?” she asked.
“Doesn’t look it.”
“Armed?”
“Knife. Bad one.”
“Intent?”
“Mostly desperate.”
Maya put down the soap.
Then Miles added, “Says his name is Dex Hartley.”
For one second, the room became very still. Not outside. Outside kept being outside: wind against corrugated metal, distant dead dragging themselves through streets they no longer had appointments in, someone swearing near the water tanks because gravity remained a bastard.
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