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say no,” Bryan said with a half-smile.
    “All right. It’s settled then,” Nick agreed. “You guys go over the wall, around the river bank, to a car, and try to lead these shit-sticks out of the fairgrounds. When you do, we go out in small groups, pour the gasoline and torch the grounds.”
    “We have rope, I assume?” Alex asked.
    “We got plenty of it,” Kelly said, walking off and leading the others back into the castle.
    “You two and the wolf stay here,” Nick ordered, and he said it with such conviction that there wasn’t room for debate. “We’re gonna stack cans of fuel on the drawbridge, you and Selina take ‘em to the gate. We’ll be back.”
    You need help lowering them?” Alex asked. “I’m a pretty good handyman, in case you need….”
    “We’ll be fine. Had a plan in place for something like this a little while back. We just have to execute it.”
    Alex, Selina and Shadow stayed in the outer courtyard in utter silence, and waited for them to return. It wasn’t ten minutes later when Alex saw the first few cans of fuel appear from the shadows of the inner courtyard.
    The two of them began gathering them up and not long after, there were a dozen cans of gasoline cluttering the area, mostly in two-gallon sizes, though a pair of five-gallon containers was mixed among them. They walked the dozen or so cans over to the gate, and as they finished setting down the last of them, more took their place.
    “So, all good?” Selina asked, hands on hips.
    “All good,” Nick answered, as Phil, Hannah and Liz climbed atop the wall-walk facing the parking lot and waited. “We lowered them into the river easily enough and kept an eye on them as long as we could. Bryan has a short-range, walkie-talkie and we stayed in contact most of the time.”
    “How’s he carryin’ a walkie? It waterproof?” Alex asked.
    “Nah, he’s got all his supplies in a watertight canvas bag for just such an occasion,” Nick said, waggling his eyebrows, which seemed oddly out of place to Alex. “And we know he found a vehicle, so we should be hearing some kind of commotion soon.”
    As if on cue, the distinct sound of a horn blaring broke the relative silence, followed by the sounds of the song, ‘Who Are You’, by The Who , in between the sporadic honking.
    “He must have really picked through ‘em to find a cassette player stereo with that big a sound system,” Phil commented, smiling and shaking his head knowingly.
    Other than a few stragglers remaining behind focused on Shadow as he snarled fiercely at them, the majority of the zombies raced off at rapid speeds—trampling each other in some cases—toward the disturbance.
    “You stay here and kill any zombies that come near,” Alex instructed the wolf, who growled in response.
    The rest of them ran toward the gate as Nick cranked it open. Phil and Liz led the charge outside, their swords and shields working in unison to halt the attacks and subsequently kill whatever undead creatures remained behind. There were only small pockets of resistance as Alex, carrying two gas cans, followed them.  They dumped gasoline all over the remaining structures nearby and along the ground as they went.
    Alex was followed by Hannah, Selina, and Kelly, all working to spill fuel all over the fairgrounds. The gate was open wide, and Shadow stood guard at the entrance.
    Nick stood at the rear of them with two pistols, both equipped with silencers to make their firing less conspicuous. To Alex, It was like a scene out of a movie, and he couldn’t believe how well the plan was working.
    He heard the sound of something whizzing past his ear as he dumped the last of the fuel out of the second gas can and looked up to see a zombie stumble backward and fall to the grass motionless.
    He looked up to see Nick aiming his gun in that direction, clearly having shot the unseen attacker. Alex glanced at the zombie, seeing that it was once a man, wearing a pair of denim overalls, and with a