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a start and we froze. Luckily I was next to an electrical meter and that’s when I finally realized what the low humming sound I was hearing was coming from. Tapping Mason on the arm, I pointed at the meter and then we both leaned towards it and stared closely until we saw the little wheel turning at the bottom. We turned to look at each other at the same time, smacking the goggles, and pulling a squeak from me before we jumped back.
         I really needed to chill out, my nerves were a mess.
         Mason slowly walked around the house and stood in front of the picture window. When I got there, I did the same thing, watching the snowy static on the TV set. Yee haw! I tapped Mason on the arm excitedly. He tilted his head at me, which was getting irritating but knew it was an inquiry. I whispered, "electric water heater, electric stove, electric freezer...ice cream, ice, pizza, blah, blah, blah."and danced a bit in place to emphasize my excitement.
         He straightened up and looked back and forth from me to the TV and back. About then the damned walker stumbled into the front room. I tilted my head back and forth slowly and thought, some things are worth working for but damn, come on.
         We headed back to the barn, both quiet but eagerly anticipating all the many wonders electricity provided. When we arrived in the RV everyone looked at us, waiting. "Well," I said, "The house has electricity". Everyone started to talk at the same time.
         "Wait a minute...we have to finish the work on the outfits and while that is happening I think we should at the very least, find out if there is a freezer in there."
         "Oh hell yea" Lacy said excitedly. "I'll help you". Mason cleared his throat and said, "I think we need you here so when we're ready we can leave."
         "But I thought we were at the very least staying the night. Why do we have to leave so soon?"
         "The Humvee’s that were here earlier? We don't want them to come back and find us here. We need to get the outfits road ready, check out the house and leave say around midnight. Is that ok with everyone? We can stop somewhere tomorrow morning and sleep a bit before going on."
         "We need some more fuel to. We're all low and 'though I plan to use the back-up gas cans, we need to replace them as soon as possible."
         "I agree, Howard. So let’s plan on leaving at midnight. Can everyone be ready by then?" When everyone nodded including Mandy, Mason and I returned to the house.  We planned to make some noise entering the house. Walkers are attracted to noise and it beat sneaking around getting surprised by one. That almost happened anyway. The walker that was in the front room came barreling right at me but Mason nailed him in the top of the head with a huge knife. We'd come in the back door, stomping and slamming the door then swept through each room like police officers. Yelling "Clear" and going high and low like we saw on TV shows we made our way back to the front room. Mason turned off the TV, and unplugged the clocks and microwave so no lights were visible within the house. If our military friends came back we didn't want them in there on top of us. So we met  back in the kitchen and  grinned at each other like kids.
         He did the old stumble back and two step when he opened the pantry, though. I don' know how it got in there but a walker was locked in the pantry until he opened the door. I don't think I could have stumbled about so wildly and kept my feet so I was really impressed when he did. I pulled up the bow and planted an arrow in its left eye. Thump! Then grabbed it by its foot and gave Mason a look that encouraged him to grab the other foot. I'm good at giving looks. Takes years of hard work and dedication, but you have to be good at something.
         We dragged it into the front room out of the way then went back to the kitchen. I figured anything in the fridge was gonna be a chemist’s delight,