[Tarrek]

Rhys and Kat had been walking for a few hours now. Night had fallen in full, and it was getting much harder to see the things that stumbled around the woodline next to the road. The sounds of leaves rustling and twigs breaking was a small warning, but without the light of the sun, traveling was far too dangerous. But it had to be done. The sooner they made it back to camp the sooner they would be out of immediate danger.
As far as the two could tell from the signs they had left behind and the worn map that Rhys kept with him, they were about half a mile from the safe house. The going had gone quickly at first with only the occasional walker roaming by, but the closer they got to living lodgings, the more the undead numbers increased. Now they had to watch every step. The two scouts came to the large parking lot of a strip mall near their group, with the safe house being just on the other side behind the buildings.
"Well," Kat whispered "We can try and sneak across to the middle door over there and risk something seeing us in the open, or we can go around and risk something seeing us in the woods."
"Great choices, right." Rhys said roughly. "Going through the middle would be faster. Plus if we get seen out there at least we have an equal chance of seeing whatever saw us. I don't want anything jumping on me from behind a tree."
"Right." She replied
Rhys let the way with Kat scanning the pavement for movement. To the far right of the building she could see the limping movements of a zombie, but besides that it was clear as far as she could tell. She caught up to Rhys.
"One off to the right." She whispered.
He also saw it.
"Stay low." he said.
They crept towards the buildings, the walker slowly making it's way in the same direction.
BOOM!
A gun shot echoed across the lot.
"That came from the safe house!" Kat exclaimed. As they watched, the single zombie started walking more directly toward their goal. Other walkers began to cross the parking lot, one of the new ones spotting them. It opened it's mouth and let out a low but powerful moan that only grew as the others followed the first one's gaze.
"Run!" Rhys yelled.