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was upside down on the windshield.
    “What are you talking about.  We’ve landed upright.  We’re lucky as crap.”  Savanna said without noticing the sign on the windshield.  It read ‘Dead End’.
    She finally got the truck in gear and she pushed on the gas.  Nothing was happening.  She felt something moving, but there was no forward movement.
    “Fuck, let me check it out.  Looks like we’re turnin’ around.”  John said pointing at the sign on the window.
    “Shit!  Don’t go out there John; I can still see one moving in the road out there.”  Savanna said pointing at a crawler in the road and searching for a clear path to U-turn. 
    “I see that meat crawler.  Don’t worry, I’ll be quick.”  John said getting out of the truck and looked under it.  The frame was wedged on a giant rock and both axles were snapped in half.
    “We’re going nowhere.  Grab your shit, we’re going on foot.”  John said grabbing his own backpack. 
    “There is a house in the woods over there. “  Savanna said pointing at a glow in the windows faintly.  They quickly headed over there and found the back door wide open and blood everywhere.  It was fresh.  There were six bodies that littered the house.  The Azrael fed on a few of the bodies but left most of them intact.  Two bodies had heads cut straight off.  One of them had a pistil still clinched in his hand.  All of these men were killed by a man, not the Azrael.  A corner of the house smelled like sex, and the sheets on the bed nearby were severely soiled.
    “What the hell happened in here?”  John said investigating the mess.  The aroma inside was rank, but it would hide their scent.  These were dead bodies avoided by the Azrael.  They don’t like already dead corpses.  The ones that the Azrael fed on must have been on death’s doorstep or unable to defend against them.  “We sleep here tonight.”  John said shutting the door and placed a chair under the doorknob.
    “Are you kidding me?  This place reeks of death.  I’m not going near that bed.  I’ll sleep in the kitchen over here.”  Savanna said and walked into the kitchen and noticed the chaos.  “What the hell, this chair has duct tape all over it and, ugh, this man has a nail in his eye.  What the hell John?”  Savanna said covering her mouth and looking away.
    “These men were assassinated by a professional.  I don’t know, I kind of think for some reason they deserved what they got.”  John said looking at the nail in the man’s eye.
    “I guess they were spared turning into those things.  Shit, I hear them outside.  It’s the herd, I can smell them too.”  Savanna said cowering into herself.
    “Shhh, don’t say anything.  Follow me.”  John said moving slowly into the back room and entered the closet.  She followed close by and entered the closet too.  It smelled rotten in there as well.  It was too dark to see what it was.  John sat down and leaned into the corner of the closet and Savanna cuddled into him and laid her head in his lap pulling herself into the fetal position.  They fell asleep.
    In the morning Savanna awoke first and tapped John to wake him up.  He came out of a deep sleep wiping drool from his mouth with his sleeve. 
    “John, get up.  I think it’s morning.”  Savanna said pushing the closet door open.  Light entered the room from broken boards on the windows and deficiencies in the wall near the windows.  It blinded her as she stood up and stretched.  Savanna took in the stench of the place again and gagged.  She coughed and shook her head trying not to faint from the odor.  John got up slowly and feet hit his forehead as he got up.
    “What the fuck is this.”  He got up and turned around and to his horror, three young pretty girls were hung up like meat in a freezer in the closet.  Their mouths were open and their bodies were nude.  He could tell they had been abused and he didn’t even want to imagine what