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if the zombie made a sudden move so she had changed her tactics and began to stab them in the chest throwing them to the ground and then using her pickaxe to crush the skull. She used this method and then pole stabbed the next zombie, pushed him into another zombie to knock them both down at once then axed both. This was the first time they had seen Roxanne in the action of killing a zombie other than behind a fence. Realizing that they were staring they suddenly jumped into action to help her.
     
    Brandon took out the water bottle and passed it around while they were walking up the road toward her car. The deterioration of the road was quickly turning it into just a lane. Part of it had eroded from rain water rushing down the mountain and was just loose gravel. Part of it was still concrete, but there were patches of mud and saplings breaking through the ground in other places.
     
    “You said you never checked the rest of the road to see if it was clear,” Brandon said, “Do you know where it goes?”
     
    “I think it is the road I was coming in on but I ran out of gas ten0 miles out and cut through the woods,” she answered. “There were a few houses along the way but I didn’t check any of them. I never saw any Ze’s on that last stretch. I don’t know where these are coming from.” They rounded a curve and Roxanne saw that the car was still there under the tarp and dried brush she had covered it with.
     
    “Nice camouflage but it wouldn’t work since everything else is so green this time of year,” Brandon said. They uncovered the car then Roxanne got in to retrieve the key from the ashtray and managed to start it on the second try. “I can understand you parking it out here when you were alone at the park, afraid of being taken by hostiles, but I prefer that we park it inside the gate” Brandon continued. “We can’t protect it out here, Roxanne. If you were on this road then others could come in this way too. Even inside the gate it’s still a long run from the Admin buildings to this end of the park and would be even harder to get to if the car was surrounded by Ze’s. Would you agree to that Roxanne?”
     
    They drove the car back into the park area but Roxanne made sure she turned it around to face outward for a quick exit if necessary. Cami got out of the car and looked at the Ze’s they had just killed. “I’m not dragging twenty damn bodies away from the fence. We’re far enough away from the Admin buildings that we shouldn’t smell them. They can rot there for all I care,” she said.
    “Roxanne, I don’t want you to think that we are naïve,” Gene said as they walked back using the road this time and not cutting through the Zoo Section of the park. Gene wanted Roxanne to show him how she had brought the car through the park to the back entrance where she now had it parked. As they walked back he decided to question her on some of her fears and see if he could penetrate that cold shell of hers. “We have run into some small bands that would kill to steal our supplies rather than join us as a group. But we’re talking five or six people and we can handle that. We have lost some along the way but what you see standing before you is the best of what’s left. We’re not alive because we were the weakest and ran, we’re alive because we fought them off. That barrier you have us building is more like you had an army in mind.”
     
    Roxanne shook her head, “I was thinking more of a herd.”
     
    “A herd?” Cami questioned, “I don’t know what you mean by a herd, unless you’re talking about the number of Ze’s in a city. That I’ve seen and I guess you could call it a herd because of the massive amount of zombies. But we’re in the country Roxanne, and should be safe from a herd out here.”
     
    Roxanne stopped and turned to look at them. Mutt, who had been running ahead of them turned and came back to her side. “We don’t know anything about these things that we