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Everyone looked at him. "No, seriously. What if we did? So far all we know is what we have been given. What would be the harm in believing what this letter says?"
    "We could get killed," Alex said. "This could be a set up."
    "But to what end?" Liam countered. "If the person behind the letter wanted us dead, we could be dead already. There are plenty of ways, easy enough, to make that happen."
    "And why do you want to believe the person that sent the information?" Cahn asked.
    "Because we've got to believe in something!" Liam yelled. "Everything we are doing, everything we've been doing since New Hope has simply been existing, simply surviving for the sole purpose of revenge. I'm just as ready as anyone else here to get revenge on the bastard that murdered my family, but we have to do something. We are going nowhere, and now, with one swipe of the pen, we are finally doing something to make that happen."
    "And if it gets us killed?" Alex asked.
    "The maybe we will have done some good, Alex. We could possibly teach someone how to do this better. Survive a little longer. Save a few more. We are good at what we do, and maybe that's because we have a little more reason to survive, but we could do this."
    There was silence in the room for a long time. Everyone weighed their choices, trying to decide where they would stand. It was Theresa Hill who finally spoke.
    "My daughter is dead," she began quietly. "Everything I strived to protect is now gone, in no small part because of my husband. He forced you," she continued, pointing to each member of the New Hope colony, "to leave your families and risk your lives for his own gains. Then he murdered them all." Tears were beginning to well in her eyes. "I will hunt down that man until I die to make him pay, to make him suffer for what he did."
    Again the room fell into silence as Theresa quietly cried, the memory of her daughter and her death now painfully fresh in her mind.
    "I'll believe," Donovan spoke. "I'll believe what it says."
    "So will I," Hayden agreed, a single tear streaming down his cheek. "My wife and son are dead, and I want revenge. They should still be here and I want the man responsible for their murder to pay."
    More people offered up their agreements to trust the information and person behind the cryptic message. Alex was the last to offer his opinion.
    "The I guess we trust in the stranger," he said, "and pray we don't regret it later." Alex pushed back from his desk and stood. "I suggest we all get some rest. We've got a lot of planning to do." He smiled. "Guess we're going to be teachers."
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    Alex sat behind his desk, head in hand, absently flipping through a coverless and worn book. Liam stuck his head in the front of the tent and quietly cleared his throat.
    "May I come in?"
    Without looking up, Alex waived him in and returned to absently flipping through the book.
    "Doing some late night reading?" Liam asked. He reached for the book and flipped through to the title page. "The Zombie Survival Guide?" he asked, confused. "Are you serious?"
    Alex looked up. Exhaustion was painted across his face. "I told you a long time ago, I got these ideas from a book."
    "You've got to be kidding?" Liam said in horror. Alex shook his head.
    "I'm not sure where he got his information," Alex said pointing to the worn book, "but most of the ideas he has are almost spot on with the tips and techniques we were developing in the military."
    "Seriously?!" Liam couldn't bring himself to quite believe his friend. "And you're trolling for ideas?"
    "Something like that," Alex said. "Just looking through to see if there was anything else we could use."
    "I think we've been doing pretty good so far, Alex. Survival rates for Stryker teams and civilians have both gone up since we started." Liam tossed the book back on Alex's desk. "So what's really bothering you?"
    Alex shook his head and handed a letter to Liam. After quickly reading it, Liam handed it back.
    "More information from our