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huge bullet hole now occupying the right side of its skull. Alex looked to Nick and back again to the corpse.
    “Thanks,” he said, feeling the reassuring steel of his own gun tucked in his belt at the small of his back.
    “Don’t mention it,” Nick said, watching the field intently as a shepherd watches his sheep, before stopping right beside Alex. “Why don’t you get your van before it’s caught in the fires, too? Park it there right outside the gates,” he whispered to Alex. “There’s a path along the right wall where you can get a vehicle through. Be quiet as a mouse until you start that engine. The flames will already be rising when you do.”
    Alex nodded and took a step. ”And Alex. Try not to get yourself killed.” There it was again, the familiar smile that inexplicably reassured Alex to the core. He nodded and ran off. As he did, he heard the sounds of footfalls behind him, stopped, spun and raised his own gun toward the source of that sound.
    It was Selina.
    “Shit, woman! I almost shot you!”
    “You ain’t goin’ nowhere without me,” she teased, ignoring his comment and taking the lead, her sword out and at the ready. Alex tested and made sure his own silencer was attached and at the ready, too. Thankfully It was, and none too soon as a trio of zombies appeared out of nowhere, charging straight at them. Alex fired two quick and precise shots, downing the two on the outer edges, as Selina waited. As the center one neared, she shifted to the side, nimbly stepping out of its path, and sending its head flying away.  They continued on, not stopping to admire their handiwork.
    Seconds later, the van was in sight. Half a minute later and they were inside, buckling their seatbelts. Alex turned the van’s engine over and gave it gas, pulling the vehicle forward and then spinning it around to face the preferred direction.
    As the van spun around, he saw the smoke begin to rise, followed quickly by flames.
    In his rear view mirror, the wooden gate jerked violently from the thunderous blows of the undead that was no doubt gathered before it. He watched for another few heartbeats as the gate trembled over and over, but held, until finally it was no longer in his sight in his rearview mirror.
    He continued driving the van along the right side wall as Nick had instructed. He shuddered as he felt the impact of what had to be another crazed zombie, perhaps more than one even, as is struck the passenger side of the vehicle. He glanced over there for a second and saw divots in the metal from the ferocious power of the undead force. He took a deep breath to steady himself and looked to Selina, whose eyes were wide with fear. That look was something that he hadn’t really seen from her to this point. She was understandably scared, and so was he. Horrifying mages of what a group of these zombies could do to a human being penetrated his mind’s eye as the van kept speeding forward. Alex felt his foot pushing deeper on the accelerator, understanding that their current speed was reckless, but he didn’t care.
    Another zombie was suddenly in his line of sight in front of him and he gunned it on the straightaway. The zombie insanely ran toward them and he gripped the steering wheel so tightly that his knuckles and fingers were white under the strain.
    A massive crash ensued as the zombie leaped and crashed into the windshield. It hit so hard that it snapped its own neck and cracked the passenger side of the windshield, top to bottom, before rolling away and off the hood. Selina rolled down the window on her side and stared back toward the undead monster.
    “Well?!” Alex asked, staring at the spider-web pattern on the windshield.
    “You don’t wanna know,” she said as calmly as she could.
    The flames grew in intensity as they grew closer to their destination. The castle walls were near and within seconds, Alex could make out more and more detail on them as they rounded the final corner.  
    Almost