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the hospital after that. I’m thinkin’ we might need to make use explosives for that one,” Nick said, folding his arms over his chest. “Just to avoid things like this again,” he added, nodding toward the gate.
    “It’s contained within the walls,” Liz said from behind them, referring to the fire. She proceeded straight over to her husband, hugged him tight and then rubbed the stubble on his shaved head.
    “So the good news is that the zombies are dying in the fire,” stated Bryan, who stood beside Alexis, the pair soaked from head to toe, appearing right behind Liz. The bad news is that we won’t be doing any farming there until next spring.”
    “When did you get back?” Alex asked them, making it to an upright position.
    “While you were out. Nick and Kelly helped us back up the wall, just a bit ago.”
    “It’s a lot harder to get up then it is to get down,” Alexis commented, cocking her head at them all and displaying a few scrapes along her forearms from the climb.
    “Well, yeah!” Bryan added with a smile, “Gravity is an unforgiving mate, eh? But it was kind of fun though, right?”
    “Fun? Maybe…,” Alexis said with a sheepish smile and a long pause. It was clear to Alex that she enjoyed her jaunt with Bryan, and he didn’t know if it was because she was being brave, or if she was just stupid, He’d have to weigh in on that one once he collected more evidence.
    Yeah, they made it back without a scratch. almost,” Nick said as Alexis cleared her throat and held up her forearms again. “Though we almost dropped Bryan as we were pulling him up. That would have been something, eh?” Nick teased his fuzzy haired friend, who removed a cigarette from a pack located in his breast pocket and lit it, taking a long drag.
    “Yeah, I’d have gotten a welt on my back for sure. Gonna need a cigarette run soon, too,” the man commented matter-of-factly, tossing away a match.
    “Not our highest priority, but since you did risk your life there, we’ll shuffle things around, for you” Nick added, his arm still around Liz.
    “How’s Shadow?” asked Bryan, staring from Selina to Alex.
    “He’ll be fine. I’m sure of it. Thanks for asking,” Selina said, clearly wanting to take the lead on answering that question, which Alex appreciated, “He’s a tough one. Do you like animals?”
    “Well, I do now. I’m taking care of Ben’s cat, Buster. He doesn’t seem to ever want to come out of ben’s room though. It’s kind of weird.”
    “I’d say he almost doesn’t like to move, let alone leave Ben’s room!” Liz interjected with a deadpan look to Bryan.
    “It’s like he knows that Ben’s not coming back,” Bryan added in almost a whisper, blowing out a ring of smoke.
    “He just might,” Alex said, getting to his feet finally. His feet felt good under him as he steadied himself. “So what’s the plan, boss man?”
    “The plan is, we wait until the fire dies down and then do some exploring to see what’s still alive out there. Then we make our runs when it’s safe to go.”
    “It’s never gonna be ‘safe’, man,” Alex interjected cynically. He immediately regretted his pessimistic statement and shook his head.
    “Safe- er , then.”
    Alex looked up into the sky and realized that hours had passed, it was well past what he believed was noon by now as the sun crested and was leaning westward. Nick must have read his concern.
    “If it gets too dark before we can get out of here, then we wait ‘til tomorrow, got it?” he said loudly, meaning to address the entire group with his tone.
    “Safety first," Liz said, reiterating his point.
    “I’m gonna scrounge up a bowl of Kelly’s famous ‘bean surprise.’ Anyone with me?” Nick asked. Everyone else nodded and mumbled their agreements, Phil and Kelly coming down the steps from atop the parapets to join them. The group slowly followed him into the castle, chatting among themselves.
    Only Alex, Selina, and Hannah stayed