DEAD: Reborn Read Free

five or six zombies, they are going to be ripped apart and there is just not going to be anything that could come back. Like I said, that is what most of us suppose.
    So as I am backing up, I watch these child-zombies start oozing out of the woods. They are locked on me, but they seem to be hesitant. I can ’t explain it any better than that. I mean, zombies already move slowly. But these things are taking a few steps and stopping. Then, and here is where it gets really creepy, they look at each other and then back to me with their heads cocking one way and then another.
    I saw the movie Jurassic Park a few times and always thought that those velociraptors were sorta cool the way they acted so smart. After all, dinosaurs are just giant lizards, but when you have one that seems to actually be thinking, it is kind of scary. Well…when zombies do it, it makes you have to pee. Not for the first time, I wondered how guys like Jon and Jake do what they do. Nothing seems to bother them.
    As I kept wa lking backwards, not daring to take my eyes off of these little monsters, I noticed how they kept looking at each other and then me. Also, I swear they were fanning out and trying to circle me. Thank goodness these things do not move any faster.
    “Hey, Billy!” Jamal called down. “You got a problem.”
    “Yeah, but if I just keep my eyes on them as I walk, they won’t be able to surprise me. You might want to call down and tell anybody that can move to get out here and help deal with this. I could take down a lot of them, but there are too many for me on my own.”
    “Already called down, but the problem is not those in front of you…it’s the ones moving up from the other side. You got another thirty or more coming out of the picnic grounds. By the looks of it, they will reach the parking lot before you and cut you off from the house if you don’t move your ass.”
    That was not what I needed to hear. Well, I was really ho ping that these child-zombies did not have any nasty tricks up their sleeves. If these things could run…I was going to be very upset.
    I turned and began to run for the cabin. The ground was a bit muddy and by the time I made it to the drawbridge, the ones from the picnic grounds were pouring around the ridge. A couple got jostled and ended up tumbling into the moat, but the rest were coming for me with hands out and mouths open.
    I got across and was pulling it up when two more people from the cabin arrived to help. We made it just in time and a few more of the little zombies ended up being shoved forward and into the moat, but that is also where these ones in particular seem to be just a bit different from the others. Regular zombies often just step off the edge and fall into the moat, but these are very aware and are fanning out along the lip. I swear they are thinking. No matter what the reason, this is a disturbing revelation.
    “What were you doing out in that field by yourself?” a voice snapped.
    Hmm , Dr. Zahn is awake.
    “I was checking out a zombie,” I said with a shrug. “And I think that we need to have a meeting.”
    “You know the rules…nobody goes out alone,” the doctor snapped. “You could have gotten yourself killed, and quite honestly, we cannot afford to lose the manpower.”
    “Yeah, well I had Jamal watching my back from the tower,” I said, trying my best to sound confident and not like some child who just got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. “And maybe we can discuss all this after we clear the place out.”
    I hiked my thumb at the zombies that were on the other side of the trench. The thing is, I’d sort of had my back to them during this very brief exchange. When I turned back…most of them were already gone. The zombies were leaving!
    Now I have seen them do a lot of stuff. Some of it seems strange, but I have never seen a zombie walk away when there is a living, breathing person just a few feet away. It was already peculiar that none of them were