By Lavie Tidhar
For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable buddies, certain jointly through a shared destiny. till one evening in Berlin, within the aftermath of the second one international conflict, and a mystery that tore them aside. yet there should always be an account...and the earlier has a behavior of catching as much as the current. Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which not anyone can retire, Fogg and Oblivion needs to stand up to a previous of negative conflict and unacknowledged heroism, - a lifetime of dusty corridors and mystery rooms, of furtive conferences and blood-stained fields - to respond to one final, very unlikely query: What makes a hero?
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Since the zombie rising, he had been on the road nearly nonstop. He had been by the rescue center once before, and it had seemed safe enough. Barely any zombies had been stumbling around in that town. But on his last cruise by the old center, he had nearly been dragged off his bike by a throng of zombies. A few grenades into the crowd had cleared his way. His helmet and leathers had kept him safe from hungry mouths and grasping dead hands. It had been a fluke that he had seen the spray painted message and map on a billboard outside of town.
There ain’t no rest for the wicked, man,” Rune joked. Or mediums, he thought. Ghosts were everywhere, just like zombies. “You can’t escape the dead in this world,” Ed finally said. ” “Thanks, man. ” Rune shifted his bag of grenades. ” The man who could see the dead looked around, studying the fort, seeing the flickering of spirits all around him. ” 3. Promises and Shadows Juan grimaced at the stink coming off the woman he loved. She was hanging on his back, covered in drying blood and gore and reeked of death.
She seemed immune to it, having been out in the deadlands all afternoon, but he had been in the nice and tidy dead-free zone of the fort. It amazed him that he had been used to the stench of the dead when they had been under siege in the first days. It was strange how humans acclimated to things like that. But once the dead throngs were cleared out and clean fresh breezes filled the fort, the smell of the dead was again sharp and repellent. “You ruined my jacket, Loca,” he grumbled, trudging toward the clean up area.