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thing.
  I trust you know what you are doing.”
  He glanced at Tom, then back at Hannah, never
breaking a smile. “So, who is our new
guest?”
    “Remember what Hank said?”  
She glanced back at Tom, sweeping her arm out.
  “This is the guy…Tom.”
    For a brief moment Miles’s smile slipped, but was
immediately back in full force. “Well,
well, well, great job.” He said.
  “So do you—“
    “They found it.” The
man hollered as he rounded the corner of the house, pounding across the wooden
planks. It was one of the two guards
from before. “The guys were searching
house by house, like you said, and came across the pendant.”
    Miles turned to the worked up man.
  “That was rather rude to come barreling up
here and interrupt our conversation.” He
said in a scolding tone.
    The man took a step back.  
“Sorry…I can…later.”
    With the smile turned back on, Miles said, “No, you have
already interrupted, so let us make it valuable.
  What have you found?”
    “Brenda’s heart thing…has Nathan’s name in it just like her
sister said it would.”
    Nobody said anything for a bit.
  Miles looked over at Hannah and Tom with a
grin, and then back to the man. “So what
do you think this means?” He asked.
    “They think we have the killer.”
    “What?” Hannah
said. “Killer?”
    Miles nodded his head slowly and held both hands up in front
of his chest. “Now let us not get ahead
of ourselves. Doctor Moraine just said
it was possibly a homicide, I thought it prudent to pursue all
possibilities. Since we have the pendant
it will be up to the council to decide the charges and punishment if
appropriate.”
    Tom was trying to keep up with the conversation and wondered
what all had happened here. He didn’t
like the idea of staying close to so many people he didn’t know.
  While he was thinking of how to get back out
of this little compound as fast as possible, Hannah asked the question Tom was
surprised Miles never asked.
    “So who is it?”
    “Isaac.” The man
said.
    Hannah was visibly shaken and took the remaining steps to
the top of the porch. “Can’t
be.”
    Miles put his hand to his mouth.
  “You are positive?”
    The man nodded his head rapidly.
  “Oh yeah, I was in his pad when we found it.”
    “There is no way.”  
Hannah’s face reddened with anger, at whom, Tom was not sure.
  “He’s one of our best providers.
  He would never.
  I’m…there’s no way.”
    Tom rested a hand on Hannah’s shoulder and leaned in by her
ear. “Not right now.”
  He whispered.
    Miles stepped over as well and looked Hannah directly in the
eyes. “I know this must be terribly
difficult for you right now.” Grabbing
one of her hands he said, “I promise you, we will look at all possibilities and
evidence before any decisions are made.”
    Hannah smiled and wrapped her arms around Miles in an
embrace. Tom stood back and watched,
wondering why an alarm was going off in the back of his mind.
  Something wasn’t right.

Chapter 4 - Trip
    “Nice to see your ugly face.”
  Hank said as he walked down the small
trailer’s front steps. He pointed his
thumb over his shoulder. “I don’t
recommend this hotel.”
    Tom wasn’t about to admit it, but he was really glad to see
the old timer. “Someone finally put you
in quarantine.”
    “Yeah…guess they thought my cool was contagious.”
    “We gotta get out of here.”
  He looked over at Hannah and added, “We’re
headed for the military base. Hannah
said you’re up to speed on this thing spreading…maybe we can find something there.”
    “Sounds like a bloody good time, you know I’m in.”
    ******
    The group stood around a large table piled with guns, MREs,
ammo, and various other supplies.
    “Just one crossbow?”
  Tom asked.
    “We have more.” A
giant man said. “Infected are almost
always in clusters. We’ve had a lot of
people die pack’n one.
  Looks nifty