<strong>"Oh, don't I just <em>wish</em> it worked like that,"</strong>Alex snorts, shaking his head and grinning wryly.<strong>"But you know that old saying about the two most common elements being hydrogen and stupidity, right?  I'm an OPRA-ist when it comes to such expectations."</strong><br/><br/>Then, off of the resulting blank looks, he sighs and translates.<br/><br/><strong>"Only Pit Realms Await.  Which is to say, there are vastly more places where life is nasty, brutish, and short if it can exist at all.  I see no reason to expect that a few dozen rousing choruses of Kum-By-Ya would do jack to slow down something like this joker.  We're gonna have to do this the hard way."</strong><br/><br/>Harmony crosses her arms and gives him a sharp look, as if she's disappointed to hear him be so pessimistic, but this is quickly replaced by a more thoughtful and somewhat sad expression.  She turns and invites herself onto Sophronia's bus rather than continue.<br/><br/>"So.  Who wants to drive point?"<br/><br/>The next several hours are slow but steady, and most of the trouble you have is getting around roadjams caused by crashes  and (in one case) a crashed helicopter.  In almost every case you're able to quickly find a way around, and the deeper into this zone you get the lighter the traffic gets.  Indeed, it's lighter than you'd expect, as if the doom that befell these little blink-and-you-miss-em towns  hit so suddenly that they had no time to flee.<br/><br/>You do have to deal with a few roving bands of shambling undead, but you move faster than they do so they aren't much threat.  It isn't like they have a hive-mind or anything, right?<br/><br/>But your next port of call...<br/><br/>You can spot the necro's palanquin all the more easily because someone saw that new Mad Max movie or something and tricked his rig out with some bigass speakers and lots of floodlights, as if trying to make himself the most glam raiser of undead this side of the Pecos.  Which wouldn't be too much of a problem, really, except that he seems to be besieging the town that was next along the road.  Just him and a few zillion undead and his own version of the Grimm Brothers' Gospel Hour.