“Welcome back,” I told her, keeping my distance lest the machine zap all of us as well. I looked at the general. “Can she flick it off?”
He nodded. “I believe so. The effect should last a few hours or so.”
“There’s a knob in front. Turn it to zero,” said Kit.
She did as was told, and then we all circled her, all patting her back and shoulders. “You tried to eat Kit’s ass,” I told her.
Hard as it was to apparently pull off, she grinned. “Just lost… my appetite.”
“b***h,” cooed Kit.
“Hell… yeah,” grunted our long-lost friend. “Hell… the f**k… yeah.”
* * * *
After that, we gathered the entirety of the camp, the humans all huddled together, none of them all too eager to mix with the zombies, who, for their parts, hung at the periphery. We released the ones in the pen as well once Creat
