Getting into the safe houses while claustrophobia inducing, was the best thing to happen to George’s family. By the time, that guy threatened Evan into taking them in, she was sick of running on a daily basis. And she was so very tired. Despite the nightmares, there wasn’t a doubt in her mind that she slept better at Grand Central than she ever did out in the city. And she was most definitely spoiled as a result. It was just a damn good thing she wasn’t one to let the odds beat her down, not when it came to her survival.
So she ran and when April changed course for an abandoned warehouse, George followed. The footsteps of the runners echoing in her ears as they continued to maintain their slim lead. Of all the common infected they had to run into while out, it had to be a trio of runners. It wasn’t enough that less than six months ago she and Luke got themselves trapped in a convenience store by Smashers, but the next time she went out with anyone her age runners had to find them. If George didn’t know better she would say that the infected had a nose for the youngin’s.
Ducking her head George followed April inside without hesitation and had to skid to a halt in the dim light.
Before them stood a herd of shufflers, approximately twenty-five or thirty of them. It was the largest concentration George had seen in a very long time. Usually shufflers didn’t get into groups much larger than ten or so from what she remembered had come across on her own. There was a tense moment before feet started shuffling over the floor toward the pair. And the runners had to be just ducking under the door or at the very least trapped on the other side.
Digging into the side pocket of her backpack George wrapped her fingers around the Leatherman multi-tool she thought to bring with her. It wasn’t much but the tool would be useful in defense until she could get her hands on something more useful. “Up?” She asked her eyes catching a rusted staircase to their left before returning to the advancing hoard in their momentary reprieve from the runners.