I think it's a man as the height and mass of him seems to be double mine and short hair on the head. I shine the torch up and down his body and it's only dirty no blood or anything.

He might be in shock or lost or I'm completely misreading this situation "Hey, sir are you alright?" I step from behind the tree and come closer to him

I hear heavy breathing not the sounds I've heard before. "Do you need any help?" I ask as I come just behind him. I look down to see the man has no shoes on. Okay maybe I did read this wrong.

As I move the light back up to the mans face I find dull lifeless eyes staring back at me. It screeches into the air as it pounces on me. It knocks me off my feet and I fall hard to the floor.

The torch has fallen onto the floor and my knife knocked just out of reach. The zombie comes tumbling down on top of me with its teeth bare snapping like a dog.
It's rough hands grabs at my clothes as I push at it's chest to keep it from biting into me. The strain in my arms is something but so is the smell coming from this dead man.

It's saliva and blood drenched mouth drips onto my face making me want to vomit as it's face gets closer to mine. I look beside me and my knife is laughing at me at how close it is. 

I groan as he rips part of my top in its fingers. I know if I scream It could attract more but right now knowing they're not too far from me it's so tempting. 

"Ahhh fuck" I groan as my arms shake harder. It's gonna kill me if I don't do something. I bring my arm across its chest as I try to reach with my other arm for my knife. 
My fingers brush against it and I grit my teeth as I don't have much strength left. My fingers crawl forward as I grip the edge of the knife. I have the handle in grasp but the zombie forces down onto me leaving my arm pinned with my hand holding it's chin away from my Neck.


I swing my knife up and straight into it's temple. It's jaw sags as it crumples on top of me. I heave it off me and stand up dusting the dirt and leaves off me. I try to gather my breath as I lean against a tree.

I hear a snap of a twig behind me and I clench my knife in my hand as I swing around shoving the zombie against the tree. I hold the knife under its chin and I could almost scream. "Miles i could've killed you!" I shout

His eyes are wide as my knife slightly digs into his neck. "Woah I just came to check on you, you were taking long plus it's my turn" he blinks and I realise I'm still holding my knife to him so I let go and put it away.

I shake my head how could it be his shift already don't tell me I lost track of time again. "Oh right errr I got half way through the walk and this guy decided to play peek a boo" I point the light on the dead man

Miles grunts as he looks at the mans bloodied face. "Oh well that explains you almost killing me" he nervously laughs as he turns away from the gory scene.

"Mmmm well maybe announce yourself instead of walking around in the dark" I say and he just rolls his eyes as he gets out his long silver knife. 

"Yeah well I'm going to finish your walk go and get some sleep you're up again soon for your next shift" he snickers as he starts to walk off.
"Yeah yeah whatever, be careful" I call as I start to head back to camp. It doesn't take that long until I arrive back to everyone still fast asleep. The fire has gotten smaller so I grab some wood that gunner left beside.


I sit down and Chuck the large piece of wood on it and watch as the flames grow bigger creating a warmer air around me. I watch as the red and blue flames dance in the air. The little runners of ash floating away before completely disappearing.