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zombie. They stood there a while, not saying
anything. They both just watched the tiny boats. Finally, Liam added,
"There don't look to be that many zombies down there. If we can get down
there without any following us, we should be okay."
          "I don't
know. It's risky." Sarah went back to the makeshift tent.
          "We are just
about out of food. We are going to have to risk going to the stores around
here."
          "But we can
get back here faster."
          "Sarah,"
Liam said as he walked over to her. "We can't stay here. We have nothing
left. I won't let anything happen to you. Once we get a boat, we can head out
into deep water. They won't be able to get us at all."
          "Okay,"
she finally said.
          "Thank
you," Liam said. "I will figure out a plan to get there safely. We
will stay here another day or two. We will need to find what we can here."
          Sarah stood up and
headed toward the door. "I will be right back," Sarah said, turning
to look at Liam.
          "Do you want
me to come?"
          "No."
          "Be
careful."
          With that, Sarah
disappeared down the stairwell. She worked her way quickly down to the basement
level and stopped a few feet from the door they had piled junk in front of. She
listened for a few minutes. The soft scraping and groans of the Dead on the
other side could be heard.   She slowly
made her way past the door to the far wall. A single door stood there. The door
clicked open as she turned the knob. She let out the breath she was holding in
as the door quietly opened up.
          The room was
filled with rows and rows of metal shelves filled with tubes. She turned on a
tiny pen light and moved along, looking at each of the labels on the caps. She
grabbed a few and headed toward the door.
          She let out a
scream and dropped the tubes onto the floor. A few of the Dead stood in front
of the doorway. She quickly picked up the tubes and headed to the back of the
room. The Dead followed as fast as they could shuffle. A pair of arms reached
through the shelves, sending tubes scattering across the floor. She dodged the
zombies but nearly fell over doing so. Sarah saw the open door behind them. Fuck , she thought. How could she forget
the other door? It went right into the big room where the zombies were trapped.
She found herself up against the back wall. Zombies were coming down each of
the aisles. She looked around and saw a fire extinguisher in the corner. She
grabbed it with one hand and swung it at the Dead that got within range. It
smashed hard into its shoulder, sending it to the wall. It stumbled and went
down. She swung again as it struggled to get up. Blood covered the wall and the
fire extinguisher as its head crumpled under the force of the attack. She
quickly stepped over it and attacked the next one. She was able to make her way
through a few zombies while the bulk of them got stuck on the bodies of the
fallen ones. She dropped the weapon, scooped up the last few tubes she had
dropped, and closed the door with a heavy thump. Looking around, Sarah saw
nothing to put in front of the door, so she ran up the staircase at full speed.
          Liam turned as he
heard the door bang open. There stood Sarah, out of breath, carrying a handful
of long, plastic tubes.
          "There . . .
there are . . . zombies in . . . stairwell." Sarah gasped for air. Liam
got to his feet and rushed over. He looked down at the group of zombies
starting to make their way up.
          "What
happened?" Liam asked as he moved back to the tent.
          "I went down
to the basement."
          "Why did you
go to the basement alone?" Liam snapped.
          "I figured we
needed these," Sarah replied, holding up the tubes.
          "What are
they?"
          "They are
plans for the whole city and the surrounding area."
          "What?"
          "Layouts of
houses, buildings, everything," Sarah said, putting the tubes