Zombies! Rising from the Dead (26 page)

Rick posed the question.
“So what are you going to do now, David?”

“Well I'm going to keep
movin
' till I get to where I'm going....God willing,”
He told Rick.

“You’re welcome to come with us if you want, we could always use the help
”,
I told him.

“Yeah, why don't you come with us David!?”
Amanda burst in.

David looked at Amanda.
“Well now pumpkin that's right nice of you to ask, and I sure
appreciate all the hospitality, but you all got
yer
thing to do and I have mine. But hell, if any of
us make it through this maybe I will look you all up sometime.”

“You know you are more than welcome to come along”,
I told him.

“Yeah, yeah I know, but I've done pretty
good
so far. I just got my own way of doing
things.”

Shortly thereafter we started loading up and got ready to depart yet again. Stopping by the
side of the road we helped our strange traveler unload his gear, giving him what supplies we
could spare and wished David well. He got back onto his bike and started off, departing in the
same fashion in which he had arrived. He waved back at us
as he
slowly faded into the
distance.

We stood there for the longest time watching as his image disappeared in the haze of
the afternoon sun. We were sad to see him go, but he was right. He had his thing to do and we
had ours; take care of Amanda and find our friend.

We never knew what happened to David, I suppose we will never will; but we never saw or
heard from him again.
When his image had finally drifted beyond our sight it was
Amanda
who turned and said,

You guys ready to get moving?
as
she jumped back in the truck.

Rick and I looked at each other shrugging our shoulders, perplexed by Amanda's new
found resilience
.

“Yeah, let’s get going.”
he said, smiling.

I was still mid-afternoon and nightfall was coming. I turned to my right looking at Amanda
and Rick before
staring out at the
lonely highway looming before us.

Panatauk was still twenty miles or so ahead, and who knew what fate held in store for us
there.

We set out into the unknown once more....