Kristie sighed, leaning against the table in absolute exhaustion. "<strong>Look, Markus, I don't expect you to understand but...theres something in that hospital. I can't exactly explain it, but I...</strong>" Kristie cut herself off, telling a stranger '<em>I felt something</em>', especially in the middle of all this, wasn't the best idea. She looked at him and forced a half-assed smile that wouldn't fool a child. "<strong>..I don't know, but I ..I swear to God I heard a scream inside. I could...almost hear them, almost. The sound of tired moaning, like there was one just a few feet away, I had shivers. I don't know what the fuck is up with that place, but I...I need to find out.</strong>" Kristie grunted, shifting uncomfortably in her chair as she gazed back out at the hospital.<br/><br/>It was all, unfortunately, true. She heard a scream, a loud one. Not the same as what those undead do, it required the use of vocal cords. It was a womans scream, high pitched and long. It wasn't a TV, it wasn't a radio, it was someone alive. Kristie's mind had been plagued by this all day, she wanted to go back and help, but at the time her mind said shelter and the morphine complied. Now that the pain was bearable and sanctuary had been secured, Kristie wanted that hospital. It was like her Goliath, her Mars.<br/><br/>It all sounded stupid when Kristie thought back, but the feeling she got inside clearly pointed out something horrible had happened. She tried to envision it, first one person suddenly dies and then comes back and the feeding begins. Then more and more people are bitten and start to die. By now its too late, there are too many, and panic and anarchy set in, making the living easy targets for the dead. Eventually someone figured it out, and locked themselves away. Without power, food or water for days, those things banging on the door. It brought a tear to Kristie's eye, not because of sadness, but for pity. She thought everything was bad for her, but she had a gun and knew how to use it. What about the mother and child, that woman she'd engaged on the street before the link up just outside. All this and more played a hefty toll on her mind, she hoped none of the others felt so strongly, but for Kristie's sake this all came back to the day of the ambush, the day she'd failed.