text: [Themes: horror, post-apocalyptic, horror]
  
  You head South but at a slower pace, keeping an eye on the shamblers you pass, finding that no matter how far you go, there are none on the road ahead of you. You start passing groups of them and panic a few times when you pass especially large groups and even a mutant but none ever make a move to intercept you.
  
  You might have turned back but soon after choosing to go South you began to see the ever-growing horde behind you and realized that doing anything but keeping on South was out of the question. Clearly something wanted you to keep going that way and was not leaving you a choice in the matter.
  
  After several hours the sun begins to set and you see a building up ahead with lights still turned on "Something still has power?" You think to yourself and stumble to a halt when something answers back inside your mind. "Well of course, it is much more comfortable here with the light on!" The voice says.
  
  You stand still for a moment as you look around for the source of the voice but simply see more shamblers. You then hear laughter in your mind and the voice continues "Oh dear me, I am sorry I didn't realize how little you knew, I mean I knew you were fresh but you actually looked around! ah dear me, anyway, I digress. I am inside the building ahead and talking to you via something you can think of as telepathy one of the nice side affects of being a herald or harbinger as some call us. We have a safe community here where you will be more than welcome so long as you follow the law, and that law is whatever we say goes." You hear a second voice join in "Well not quite, we do have simply rules and laws but essentially our word is law here, the rules are easy though, don't kill anything that is or used to be sentient and don't cause trouble for us. If you want in you simply have to answer a couple of questions and agree to live by our rules. You will have food, water and entertainment here and you will be safe from others too."
  
  You pause for a few moments to think this strange development over but you can actually feel their minds waiting for you to answer so try to buy yourself a moment "What are the questions I must answer" You think as hard as you can at the minds and feel them recoil slightly. "Honestly now, use your inside voice!" You hear immediately after "We are inside your head so try not to shout, it is rather uncomfortable. "Sorry" you think, trying to make your thoughts softer and less directed. "Ah, better, you learn quickly at least" one of the minds responds "The questions are simple. First, how did you find us, second, do you kill and eat humans?"
  
  You pause for a moment and try and work out what to do, you are a Harbinger after all so you DO kill and eat humans, your entire reason for wanting to find survivors was to kill and eat them but do you really want to tell these harbingers that?
  
  Tell them the truth, they are the same as you afterall
  
  Lie to them, can't show all your cards right away.
  
  > lie to them, can't show all your cards right away.
  "I never actually knew about any of this, I was just exploring when the infected forced me to come this way" You begin truthfull before beginning the lie "But I don't eat humans, I was actually trying to get into a colony at the stadium before coming here, I only feed off infected like shamblers".
  
  There is a longer pause than before and you get a little nervous when you hear the voice again. "Ok then! just up ahead you'll see the underground entrance on your right? Good, that's the entrance you'll need to take, we are quite nicely set up in an old arena here, it was half underground before so makes it very defensible as you can imagine!" The tone seems jovial and the tunnel leads towards the lit building so you shrug and follow the instructions, walking down into what looks like an old underground parking structure with an obvious tunnel cut into one wall, it's not as if you have a choice anyway.
  
  As you walk through the tunnel which has obviously had some work done to it with reinforcements and walls removed or built you hear noise building up ahead. "Is something going on up there?" You ask in your mind and immediately get the response "Of course! It's not every day they get to see a new harbinger so this is somewhat of an event! Everyone has gathered for it. Some of the minds to the East don't agree with our stance on the matter which is why we separated but we see that we are superior to humans and should be treated as such so we rule here like Gods in a way, when we say there is an event, EVERYONE attends, not that they'd want to miss this anyway."
  
  You heartily agree with the statement. You ARE better than humans; they are your prey after all. You can see their position though. Keeping them like pets to obey and serve you before eating them wouldn't be so bad either. And this talk of minds to the East, it must mean that Harbingers rule the Eastern colony too!
  
  You see some light up ahead and walk out into what looks like the centre of an arena with 10 foot walls of concrete topped with another 10 feet of metal and reinforced glass. The humans are all on the other side of the glass cheering down at you like fans watching a concert. Something clearly isn't right.
  
  You sense a pull on your mind from above you and looking up you see two cloaked figures sitting on a platform that extended out from the wall over the tiered rows of seats giving them the best view both around the room and down into the pit.
  
  "Welcome to the City Arena! Rules by the Lords of the New City, this is the place where your post-apocalyptic fantasies can become a reality, for the right price!"
  
  You now know that something is definitely wrong as a massive battered steel sheet slams down behind you, trapping you in the arena. Even with your enhanced strength you aren't sure you could budge it without a lot of time and something to lever with.
  
  The announcement continues though, the speakers voice amplified through a speaker system hanging high above of the roof. "Today we have a very rare treat for you, in the ring is a harbinger folks! That's right, like our very own Lords of the city he has superhuman abilities however this one tried to lie to the Lords and we know how they take that don't we!" The crowd responds with even more cheers.
  
  You aren't going to stand for this, being put on display like some animal while the humans throw money around and a large board has odds displayed! Odds displayed. You look around as see another large metal sheet across the way beginning to rise. "That's right folks, he might be a lot weaker than our lords but he is still a big challenge so we are sending in a big challenger! It's Nate the Sentinel!"
  
  You quickly look around for an escape plan of a weakness and try to test the plate blocking the door behind you but the other door does not wait for your tests and before you have time to try the walls you see a huge beast lumber through. Like a man but grotesquely mutated into something that looked more like an ogre from the old myths than a human anymore.
  
  You can easily beat any normal infected you have met and think you could even take on one of the normal mutant animals so long as it was along and you had a weapon but this was something else entirely, you can tell just by looking at it that it is intelligent and ridiculously strong. The beast comes charging at you and you barely dodge in time as it moves faster than anything that size should be able to move.
  
  You spin and prepare yourself. It is strong but you are fast and that might give you the advantage here. The crowd goes wild as the monster charges again, and you dive to the side once more. This time though it pivots mid charge and lashes out at you even faster than it was before. You take a backhand right to your chest and slam hard into the opposite wall, you briefly feel your caved in chest and realize your spine must be gone too since you can't feel your legs before Nate arrives and picks you up.
  
  "You shouldn't have tried to lie to us you know" You hear in your mind as Nate bites you in half.