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wake him. He was sleeping. She knew it. He had to be. Something had happened and now he was asleep.
    "Daddy!"
    Nothing.
    "Daaaddddyyy!"
    Emily ran her fingers up her father's arm until they touched his face. Something felt wrong with his jaw, but she ignored it. She lowered her head closer to his.
    "Wake up," she pleaded. "Please!"

Chapter 7
    Alice stood by the window while John was seated on one of the chairs near the workbench. His body hurt from the fall.
    "What are you doing over there?" he called to his wife.
    She turned to look at him. The light bulb didn't do much to illuminate her from where she was standing, but he could still see the panic on her face. "I want to know what's happening out there," she said. Her voice came out rushed, like shots from a machine gun.
    John shook his head. "No you don't, honey. Come back over here."
    "No. I want to know. I have to look."
    Alice placed her foot on the stool that John had fallen off of. He went to stand and stop her, but a pain shot down his side. He winced.
    "No, Alice," he tried again. "Don't look out there!"
    He didn't want his wife to see what he had seen. More than that, he didn't want any of those people outside to se e them . He thought it was better if no one knew that he and his wife were down in the basement . The door upstairs could only hold out for so long, and against so many.
    His wife didn't listen. She placed out her hands and rested them on the wall for support. She stood onto the stool. Her balance was better than her husband's, but John was still worried that she might fall.
    "Alice, please!"
    She turned back to look at him. "I want to see what's happening. Help might've come. It might have, John. It just might have!"
    John could hear the desperate hope in her words. He wished for the same thing. Except, deep down, he new that help hadn't come. It might never.
    "Listen to it outside, Alice," he said. They could both hear the fighting, crashing, screaming. "Help isn't out there."
    "It might be John. It just might!"
    "We'd hear it if it was. Sirens. People shouting out for survivors. Anything! But listen to it, Alice. Just listen to it!"
    Alice cocked her head toward the window. Her eyes opened wide. It was as though she had never really been paying attention to what had been going on out there.
    "I have to check." She turned away from her husband to look outside.
    "Alice, no!"
    John watched as she got onto her toes to take a better look. Then she screamed, "John, there's a man out here. I think he's dead!"
    He hadn't told her about the man that he had seen because he hadn't wanted her to worry. Now she knew. "Alice, come back."
    "There's blood everywhere," his wife continued, ignoring him. She was talking about on the man's face. His nose and mouth were dripping with it. It even seemed to be coming from the man's eyes. "Did you see him? Do you know who he is?"
    "No, I don't know who he is. Please, stop looking out there."
    "He has to be one of our neighbours, doesn't he? Oh, John, why would they have done this to each other?"
    John didn't know. He didn't want to keep talking about it, either. Not with his wife standing on a stool, looking out the window.
    "Come on, Alice. Come back over here."
    "But…" Alice's voice broke off when she saw a set of feet walk in front of her and stop. She stifled a scream, yet a little squeak came out of her.
    "What is it, honey?" John called to her. "What's wrong?"
    Alice didn't answer. She watched as whoever was out there dropped to his knees. She saw his hands. The were covered in dirt, covered in blood. They began searching over the dead body, grabbing at the corpse's face, pulling at its hair. Then the man outside lowered his own head and started biting into the dead body.
    Alice could only make out the top of the person's head as he bobbed up and down, chewing on the dead being.
    She didn't know what was happening. Sh e couldn't hav e . She had never seen anything like this before. She had never eve n imagine d