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her since she can’t make it,” Kevin said in a burst of inspiration.
    Valarie dropped her head in surrender, but at least she was moving in the right direction. Kevin gradually got their speed up again to open the distance once more. He figured he might need all the cushion he could manage in case something else came up.
    Fortunately, they made it to the highway. The first thing that Kevin noticed was the tracks from his and Peter’s trip, They were a bit faded and snow blown, but he was pretty certain that there weren’t too many other people to have passed this way on a snowmobile.
    Not only that, but evidence of another herd passing this way could be seen once he started toward the sign. From the looks of it, they had come from across the median and then started towards Newark. That was probably the group that had forced him and Willa to abandon their Snow Cat. The good thing about them having come through was that it would make travel easier. Unfortunately, that would also hold true for the zombies still on their trail. He had to find a way to ditch them.
    There was an other overpass in the distance beyond the one they would be going under. He looked back and tried to gauge his lead. He might be able to pull it off, but it was going to mean that Valarie would need to do exactly as he asked.
    Continuing to look back as he half jogged and half speed walked the distance that got them to the base of the slope that they would need to climb, Kevin began to feel just a teensy bit of relief. The zombies had not come into view yet. Logic would say that as long as he could not see them, they could not see him.
    “Okay, up the hill, Valarie,” Kevin tried to make it sound like this was going to be the most fun thing in the world.
    “Can we rest for a while, I’m tired,” Valarie sniffed.
    “As soon as we get to the top of that hill, I am going to let you sit down. In fact, you can even take a nap if you want.”
    “I can’t take a nap up there. It is in the middle of outside,” Valarie argued.
    “Pretend we’re camping,” Kevin said as he tightened his grip on her hand and started up.
    It wasn’t as difficult as he’d imagined. The snow was almost knee deep and actually helped to support the backs of their legs as they climbed. When they reached the top, Kevin kept his eyes looking back. So far they were still obstructed from view. Now, as long as the stupid zombies didn’t track them by their trail in the snow and the obvious path they took climbing onto this overpass…they might get lucky.
    He considered his plan again once they made it over the retaining wall. They could just keep running and hope for something to distract the zombies, or maybe they would come upon Aleah and the others and the group could devise something.
    He glanced over at Valarie and was amazed to discover that she was asleep. Her chin had drooped down to her chest and she was breathing the slow, deep, regular pattern of somebody on a visit to ‘La-La Land’. He marveled at her ability to disconnect so suddenly and completely. Not for the first time, he wondered how she had survived as long as she had all by herself.
    Small town or not, she had co-existed with quite a few of the walking dead. Granted, she was one of those who displayed immunity to the bite—and had the scars to prove it—but if enough of them got you at once, immunity was not going to help. Of course, she had cut the legs off of all the zombies in town, so keeping away from them had not proved too great of a challenge.
    Kevin pulled the bag from his shoulder. He had managed to collect a few things in the short while since he had left his group to find Shari and Valarie. He’d even managed to scoop a few things from a house just after Major Beers and her army left. It wasn’t much, but there was one thing in particular that he had found that he wanted to take a look at. In the bedroom on the nightstand had been a small prescription bottle of Ambien. After finding the