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Michelle
and me being out of my depth.
    “No, it’s about this woman with the bite,” I told Miriam
over the radio.
    “Is she getting worse?” Miriam asked.
    “No, it’s the opposite. She seems to be getting better.”
    “Dudley, there is no getting better from a zombie bite. The
onset of symptoms varies depending on the severity of the bite, but the
conditions will only worsen.”
    “Okay, well what about some kind of remission?”
    “No such things with a zombie bite, things just go from bad
to worse.”
    Now, just to give you a little back story, Miriam knows what
she’s talking about. She works with our team in a sort of advisory capacity.
    “ I’ve certainly heard
of her, yet I’ve never met her or even seen her. If I remember correctly, Skie
told me that she’s a three hundred year old witch. Can you tell me in what sort
of way she advises the team ?”
    She’s an expert on the scary stuff. She knows all about
what’s out there going bump in the night. In other words, she knows stuff about
monsters.
    “ I get it .”
    Awesome, so we’re on the same page?
    “ Yes we are .”
    Then you can understand how confused I was, because right in
the next room was a woman that seemed to be improving after being bitten by a
shambler.
    “Here’s the thing,” I said. “I just looked at the bite mark
and it really doesn’t look too bad. It actually looks like it might be healing.
On top of that, the woman herself seems to have a lot more energy, and she’s
taking foods and liquids.”
    “Really?” Miriam asked.
    “Yeah,” I replied.
    “Are you sure she’s not faking. The poor woman is probably
scared to death.”
    “I guess she could be faking the whole feeling better part,
but I’m not sure how she could be faking a healing wound.”
    “Do me a favor and put the camera close to the wound, so I
can see it this time,” said Miriam.
    I did as Miriam asked. I went back over to Michelle; I took
my earpiece off and held it close to her bite mark for a few seconds. After
that, I place the contraption back on my ear, I think my actions kinda freaked
out Michelle, but the woman didn’t get emotional or anything. That actually
impressed me. I remember when I was bitten. I was freaking right the fuck out,
and I would have probably freaked out a lot worse if I had started to feel any
major symptoms. The sigh of relief I breathed out when I realized I could heal
was enormous.
    I tapped my radio for Miriam.
    “Well, what do you think?” I asked.
    “I’m not sure what to think. That bite doesn’t seem to be
showing any of the normal symptoms that a zombie bite typically shows. I need
to do some research on this. I will let you know when I have something. In the
meantime, do the evacuation as soon as possible…and get that woman on the
chopper. I want to talk to this person. That is, if she’s still alive by
nightfall.”
    “Gotcha, as soon as the sun goes down we’re outta here.”
    Adam wanted to know what was going on. I didn’t blame him a
bit. I just didn’t exactly know what to tell him. How do you explain to someone
that the so called experts are actually stumped? At that point, I was really
wishing that Jaxon was with us. Then again, Jaxon isn’t exactly the emotional
type and I can’t really even picture him being in my situation. He’d probably
just tell the guy to go talk to Kingsley.
    I was a mess. I had no idea what to say to him.
    “ Dudley, do you
realize that you’ve become somewhat popular around the world ?”
    I may have heard that once or twice. Are you gonna hit me up
for my autograph?
    After a polite
chuckle, I answered him. It somewhat crosses the line with unbiased journalism,
but I’m pretty sure that most people would agree that I crossed that line
during the first set of interviews .
    “ I’m actually not
going to ask you for an autograph. I’m going to pass on a little secret that
you haven’t seemed to grasp just yet .”
    Really, what’s that?
    “ You among the