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couple nurses from inside ran out as three or four more of those things came up the driveway from the street. We still didn’t know what was going on, but they all had that look about them, so we got most of our people inside and locked the front door, just in time for the Head to order an evacuation.” She picked through the contents of the drawer and abruptly pulled out a purse that was lodged in the back of the open drawer.
    “I was about to leave with the rest, but noticed we came up short on the low security head count; we were five down, but no one wanted to wait around and find the last ones.” She made an exasperated and resigned face.
    “But you did,” I filled in, impressed.
    “Those things were already surrounding the buses, and it was getting pretty hairy. The Head gave me a set of keys to the last bus in the yard, had the driver pull up next to a fire escape, and bid me good hunting.” She made a disdainful face.
    “Selfish ass. They sped off toward the expressway, and I found my five. Three of them were in the cafeteria. I found Fred here wandering around one floor up, and this guy,” gesturing to No-Name, “was actually two buildings over, between the max security ward and the gym.”
    “So you holed up in the cafeteria?”
    She shook her head slowly, agreeing and disgusted at the same time. “Yeah. Someone had left them there, unsupervised. The rest of them were eating their damn breakfast when I found ‘em.”
    “Pancake!” This from Fred, who hadn’t even looked up, but was focused intently on untying and retying his left shoe.
    She spared a glance in his direction, and dumped out the contents of the purse on the desk. With a gasp of success, she picked out a key ring and moved on to the wallet, flipping through various cards until she found an insurance card, which she stuck in her pocket. She discarded the rest.
    “So we just barred the exterior doors and hunkered down. They didn’t even realize we were in there until I made a loud noise this morning dropping a damn can of beanie wienies. That did it. They were all over the doors like white on rice. Took ‘em no time to get through the barrier. So now we’re here.” The sound of beating on a door filtered up from the hallway we had vacated. “For now.”
    “What are you looking for?” I asked, although I was fairly sure I knew the answer.
    “I lost the keys to the bus when we had to bolt from the cafeteria. We’ve got no other way to get out of this place, and those things are everywhere. They started streaming into the campus after everyone else took off.” She looked outside, seemingly unconsciously.
    “They’re attracted by at least sight and noise, and when our patients started screaming in terror, they just started…well, not running, but they did some pretty speedy shuffling toward anything that moved. I lost two people in the cafeteria when they got in.” Her face was serious and her eyes widened. She gripped the edge of the desk tightly as she spoke.
    “They fucking tore into them with their teeth! I’ve been dealing with crazy people-clinically and criminally crazy, sick bastards-for years, and I’ve never seen anything like it. They didn’t just bite them, they were chewing and fucking swallowing!” She shuddered briefly. I remembered A-team and the blood. So much blood.
    She kept on. “There were ten or twelve of them that got in. I was lucky enough to pick this up,” she patted her lab coat pocket, “from a guard booth downstairs before we locked down, and got off a couple shots, but it was like they didn’t even feel it. I got these three out, but the other two didn’t know any better. What a cluster fuck it was down there. Those things moaning and groaning, my people screaming and falling down. When we left the cafeteria, two of us were down, and five or six of those… things… were on each of the unlucky bastards.”
    She smiled wanly, “You’ll have to excuse my language, but when I get excited,