16
Cassie
––––––––
I’m not sure which woke me first, the horrifying screams, or feeling so parched that my lips felt like dried cement. One thing I knew for certain, I’d been asleep for far too long and was no longer among friends.
My eyelids felt weighted down and kept refusing to respond. When I finally managed to lift them, I thought for a moment that I was still trapped in a nightmare, because the scene unfolding near me was too horrible to be real. But then I remembered I was living in some sort of crazy zombie apocalypse and disturbing images were now the norm.
“Help...” gurgled the bloody soldier curled up just outside of my cell.
I blinked and sat up.
My cell?
His hand reached toward me but there was nothing I could do for him, even if I’d wanted to. Attached to his torso w
