Chapter Thirty-Four

Everyone held their breath while they waited to see if the cure that Olga released in the human zombie’s cell was going to work. No one was more eager to see success than Kendra. 

She already knew about the puddle of goop that reminded Felix of vomit before he’d told them because she’d slipped out to the confines around sunrise to check on the human zombies.  She’d communicated with the intelligent one and told it that they were attempting to cure it. Her heart practically broke in half when its eyes watered as if it was about to cry.

She spent about twenty minutes conversing telepathically with it.  She learned that he could remember very little of his life as a human.  He did, however, recall the final moments.  He was a father and a husband.  His wife was the first to contract the disease while he was away for a few days hunting.  When he returned, he found her eating the last of their three children.