Zombie Ocean (Book 3): The Least

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their hands and teeth.
    "It could be a temporary strain of madness, like a super-flu," said expert Mathias Goren from MIT Infectious Diseases, "or even a fatal rabies-like virus, we just don't know. They're turning into what look and act like zombies. Shelter in buildings or in remote areas doesn't seem to prevent the spread. I'm afraid I can't offer any advice, only luck. There is nothing we can do but pray."
      Update us with the hashtag #outbreak. All reports will show here. May God have mercy on our
souls.
    "MOM!" Cerulean shouted. He remembered the red panic button by his side and punched it. Up above a siren rang.
    The Box front page refreshed itself with a flurry of tweets coming in from reporters on the ground, government bodies, FEMA and various emergency services.
    #outbreak The lights all across Baltimore just went out!
 
    I see a horde of them coming. Help me! #outbreak
    Jackie Rosen in Albany isn't answering, does anyone have eyes on? #outbreak
    The whole #outbreak is a goddamn fakeout, cool your shit, Ameritards…
    #outbreak #FEMA Satellite imagery shows a flood of infected humans rampaging northwest along I26 from Columbia.
    #outbreak #gov DO NOT attempt to intervene with an infected. Find higher ground.
    #outbreak Seek refuge in your cellar.
    The @surgeongeneral advises you tape down windows and doors, wear a breathing mask, cover your eyes, stay calm and wait it out. #outbreak
 
    He stared but they just kept coming, message after message, many contradictory, each panicked, reporting a disease wave-front moving like a storm across the country, eating up people and towns and states in minutes.
    #outbreak Colorado is infected! I heard on KR653 radio and the DJ just got it and everybody started screaming.
    #outbreak Augusta is infected.
    #outbreak Macon is infected.
    It's terrorists. It's a dirty bomb and we need to strike those bastards hard with nukes, now! #outbreak
    #outbreak I-75 is backlogged with traffic after a plane came down outside Tallahassee. People are getting out of their cars and running.
    Hiding in your basement won't do a damn thing- I just watched a family live-casting from their New Jersey bunker turn white on air. We can't escape! #outbreak
    #outbreak He tore him apart! He just tore him apart, and there's so much blood, oh my God, what do I do?
    "Mom get down here!" he cried. There was an answering thump from upstairs.
    Then the video on his phone re-buffered and kicked in again. The same news anchor was sitting at the desk with paper all around her. Monitors in back showed a mixture of white static and dark, empty streets. 
    "Hello America," she said, staring right at the camera. "If you're watching this then you know we're in the midst of an extinction-level event. The tide is lapping at our doorstep and I expect we'll be washed away within the hour. We're showing now footage of widespread infection in Kentucky, Alabama and Arkansas. My team and I are determined to stay on air until that moment comes. The studio doors have been barricaded. I want to tell you, hold your loved ones close. Barry, if you're watching this, I love you. I'm sorry I can't be there. Jemma and Albi, I love you both. We'll see each other soon, OK? I'll be right there. To anyone else still watching this, I want you to know this is for real. This is really happening. It-"
    She stopped talking abruptly. There was a crash off camera but she didn't react. Her head inclined slightly and she closed her eyes. A long, silent moment passed, then she opened her eyes, and they were a bright and glowing white.
    Cerulean jerked in bed.
    A second later she stalked away out of the camera's field of view. There was clattering and crashing, something like a scream, then the scene was silent.
    He watched the empty news desk like that for almost a minute, peering at the tiny images on screens behind the desk, until there was a loud scampering sound from somewhere behind the camera, a strangled moaning scream, then a thump, heavy

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