With some reluctance, she started in on some of the lasagna, eating it slowly and methodically.  This would probably be her last meal, and she wanted to savor it.  She didn't know what death was like, not for certain, but she'd heard tales about the dead missing the taste of food.  It wasn't something she wanted to think about, but her brain didn't give her a lot of choices on her ponderances.<br/><br/>"Shine-san, right?" she asked, a little iffy on names.  "I'm Aori."  Allowing herself that brief pause and a bow for introductions, unsure if she'd actually talked with him to some degree yet or not, she went back to her writing.  "If you want me around a while, I want to do some experimentation on the zombies.  Using nets, breaking limbs and cleaning out a basement, it shouldn't be difficult to set up a sort of makeshift laboratory.  I want to know if they do rot, how acute their senses are, if they can last indefinitely without food, things like that.  We'll have to be careful, of course, but understanding the enemy's strengths and weaknesses are important."<br/><br/>The thoughts were just coming now, the plans on how to survive.  She didn't want to keep fighting, she didn't want to have to handle all this, but it seemed that she didn't have much choice.  Either way, if they wanted her to eat, she at least had to have some way to pay for the meal when food was soon going to be so exceptionally scarce.<br/><br/>"When we hit the mall, it'd be best to drive straight through the glass doors."  She starts drawing another diagram.  "It's only one floor, so that'll make it much easier.  I think that we can expect that a few people will be holed up at the mall as survivors, and we can bring them with us if we want to."  Now it was going from you to we.  Was that really hope she was starting to feel, or was her mouth just running again.  "We use the heavy vehicle to just plow through the zombies, stop at store after store with things that we need, and clear it out as we loot.  I suggest one person with guns, one person with a sword, and two people who go in afterwards to just grab things who will be defended by the others."