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she stopped and turned to face him.
          "I'm sorry,
but it sounds like he got bitten and became a zombie himself," she said.
She turned and pushed opened the door. The sun blinded Liam. He stopped and
held his hand up.
          "Shhh, they
are still all around us, and I don't want them to know we are up here,"
she said as she crouched down and moved to the edge of the roof. Liam did the
same.
          "You know, I
bet Ben was one of the first in this area to have Z.D."
          "Z.D.?"
Liam asked. She looked over at him with an are-you-seriously-asking-me-that
look on her face.
          "Zombie disease."
          "Oh."
            Liam looked around and saw she had lain out
the words S.O.S on the roof in books. She’s
smart , he thought. He saw a few jugs of water, a blanket, and a few chairs
with a rug set up over it. She had made a small camp. He looked over at her.
She was still scanning the streets.
          "How long
have you been up here?"
          "Since this
morning," she replied, not taking her eyes off the streets.
          "You did a
lot for just one day," Liam said. She looked over at him and then back at
her small camp.
          "Well, I fell
asleep here last night."
          "Oh."
          "No, I'm not
homeless," she said quickly. "I work here and took a small break to
read a little. I must have fallen asleep. When I awoke, everything looked like
it does now. I went outside but quickly found that it was a very bad idea. I
thought I was going to die." She paused for a moment. "I also read a
lot of books. Zombies are nothing new to me. I mean, I didn't think they would
ever be real, but I already had a plan."
          "Oh," is
all that came out of Liam's mouth. The two of them lay there, watching the town
around them. Liam watched as a zombie shuffled this way and that.   At one point, they saw a man running down the
road, screaming as he fired off rounds from a small handgun. When he ran out of
ammo, he just sat down and let the zombies fall upon him. That was a bit too
much for the both of them. Liam moved over to the door and leaned against it.
Sarah crawled into the tiny tent she had made. He watched her for a while. She
may have come off cool about it all, but the death of that man clearly had
shaken her.
          "I served in
Korea, you know," Liam said. "I saw a lot of young men lose it. It
was an overwhelming amount of death we saw. Most of it didn't make much sense
to us. Kind of like that man out there. Who knows what made him snap? You start
to ask yourself, why would he want to die that way? Or why kill himself at all?
He could have done what you did. Doesn't make much sense to run down the street
firing a gun and then just wait for death."
          She looked over at
him, listening to everything he was saying. He could see the fear in her eyes.
          "Can't really
give you a good reason for what he did. But I will tell you this: you're a
fighter. You don't let a few damn zombies knock you down. Look what you have
done. Made all this. What did I do? I got chased around town like a chicken
with his head cut off," he said and smiled at her.
          Sarah's eyes seem
to soften a little at that. "Thanks for saving me," Liam added.
          "You're
welcome," she said. The two of them sat there in silence for a while. Liam
looked down at his watch. It was 6:40. The sun was setting over Lake Yixa. The
orange-yellow rays of light burned across the lake. It almost looked as if it
were on fire as the last bit of sun dipped below the horizon. The sky turned to
a dark purple and then black. It was a
beautiful sunset , Liam thought.
          "You have
family?" Sarah asked.
          "No, it's
just me and my cat Tux."
          "Aw, I love
cats. Not allowed to have one where I'm staying at."
          "What about
you?" Liam asked, knowing this could be a bad topic to ask about.
          "No, my
parents were killed when I was just a baby.