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Bedlam didn’t quite begin to describe the state of the French Quarter when Sophie and Ephraim rode down Decatur Street in the Guardians’ armored SUV. Duverjay was driving all the males plus Alice and Echo, who were apparently allowed to go on such a dangerous mission. As they cruised past the French Market, paying absolutely no attention to the usual one-way streets, the place was deserted.
Except the staggering corpses and the possessed, who were legion in number. Groups of them moved in swarms, this direction and that, single-minded as flocks of sheep being herded onward… but to what?
“s**t, there are a bunch of humans running away from the Riverwalk,” Aeric said, pointing toward the paved area where the French Quarter met the Mississippi river. “They don’t look particularly possess
