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sisters both gasped, too stunned to expel their breath as the man reached out toward them, snarling. Determined to reach them, he pushed himself forward, falling off the counter with a splat as what remained of his mangled intestines fell out.
    Sky bent at the waist and vomited the Twinkies she’d had for breakfast.
    A shuffling sound from around the corner spurred Raven into action before she could follow suit. She grabbed Sky’s arm and pulled her into the closest room.
    “What are we doing?”
    “Something’s moving out there,” Raven explained, shutting the door behind them. They were in a small room with cooking appliances and refrigerators. Pots and pans hung by hooks suspended from the ceiling. “This must be where they prepare the breakfast foods. There should be knives or something useful. Start searching, but do it quietly.”
    They quickly rummaged through cabinets and drawers. Although she found food and drinks, Raven couldn’t find a single knife that wasn’t plastic.
    “Dammit. What kind of kitchen doesn’t have a knife?”
    “The kind that only cooks scrambled eggs and sausage patties,” Sky answered.    
    The knob on the door leading out to the breakfast area of the lobby started jangling.
    “Raven!”
    Sky ran to her side and she quickly tucked her under her arm. With her necklace the only weapon she had, she pulled her sister toward the door they’d entered through.
    “That other one’s out there. He was crawling toward us.”
    “He was dragging himself,” Raven corrected her. “He doesn’t have any legs. I’d rather go against him than one who can walk, and for all we know there’s more than one outside that breakfast area door.”
    Sky whimpered.
    “I love you, Sky.” Raven kissed her younger sister’s head. “I won’t let anything happen to you.”
    She grasped the doorknob and paused. “As soon as I open this door we’re going to run to the front exit. We’re right at the lobby entrance so we just go into the lobby and cut a right, then out through those doors. If the man at the counter has managed to drag himself this far we can probably jump right over him. Got it?”
    Sky nodded. “Just don’t leave me.”
    “You know I never would.”
    “Not on purpose, but like Mom and Dad did.”
    “Not even like that,” Raven managed to get out past the ball of anguish that had formed in her throat. “We’re going now, before anything gets in that other door. You ready?”
    Sky nodded.
    “Let’s go. Move fast.”
    Raven twisted the knob, pulled the door open, and led her sister out. They successfully jumped over the desk attendant’s moving torso, rounded the corner, and came face to face with three zombies blocking the exit.
    “Shit!” Raven grabbed Sky and whirled around, but the two zombies that had been trying to get through the kitchen door were approaching from that direction.
    “Raven, what do we do?”
    Raven barely made her sister’s words out, the little girl’s voice trembled so badly. She looked around and found a door to their right.
    “We hide,” she answered as she pulled the door open, revealing a small closet. She shoved Sky in with the sweepers and mops, and jumped in behind her. She pulled the door to close them inside, but a zombie hand grabbed the edge and pulled it back.
    “Shit!”
    She pulled with all her strength but now three of them had grabbed the edge of the door and their combined strength outweighed hers. She had her sharpened cross and an assortment of mops and sweepers to work with.
    “I can’t hold the door any longer, Sky. I need you to grab a mop and try to ram the wooden part through these things’ faces.”
    “I can’t!” Tears streamed down Sky’s chubby cheeks. “It’s too scary. They’re too big.”
    “I can’t fight five of them alone and I can’t hold this door. They’re going to get in.”
    “I can’t do it. I can’t do it!”
    Raven inhaled deeply. She couldn’t get mad at Sky. She was just a little