Johnny helped in freeing the horses, realizing there was no choice at the moment.  He patted Gandalf gently and gave a nod, as Reena made them all run off.

"We'll find them," he assured her, as he grabbed his stack of supplies and followed into the basement.

Dallen stayed closest to the window, motioning for everyone to stay silent.  After a few minutes, the first shadows passed by.  The sound of the roamers could be heard just outside next, which got louder as more came.  One by one the dead walked by, some faster than others.  Dallen watched their feet shuffle across the grass.  They were as silent as a mouse inside the basement, so Dallen was confident they would get through this.  

Johnny stayed quiet near the door to the house, thinking about the special infected he had come into contact with the night before.  That fiend could smell them, if there were any in this group.  He wanted to tell the others about it, but couldn't at the moment.  He just held on to the door and waited for it to end.  Couldn't be to much longer now.

"Heellp!!!" a woman's cry rang through the air from the outside.

A gunshot followed.  Then another.  The momentum of the horde seemed to slightly adjust, now heading directly into the bulk of the few houses.  A few more gunshots and screams were heard.  Dallen gave everyone a stern look and still motioned them to be silent.  Whoever was out there was now on their own.

"Oh my God, run!!" the woman's voice screamed.  Another, higher pitched female voice screamed in agony.

Ethan raised an eyebrow and immediately moved over to the window beside Dallen, who shot him an unerved look.  Ethan's face turned to worry as he peeked outside, just in time to see the woman run into view.

"Heelp!!  Anybody!!"

Ethan's eyes shot wide open as he saw the woman, his wife.  The dead were on her trail as she wobbled toward an outhouse, blood trailing down one of her arms.  She entered the small unit, closing the wooden door to be met with walkers rushing it.  They clawed and scratched the weak wood, as his wife let out a helpless bone chilling cry.

Ethan ran over to Johnny and went for the door, but a confused Johnny stepped in front of him.  "What are..."Johnny started.

"That's my wife!" Ethan yelled.

"You can't..." Johnny began again, but Ethan ran out of patience already and socked him a good fist to his face.  Ethan slung the inner door open and rushed outside.

"Here!!  Here!!  Over here!!" Ethan screamed to the dozens of undead surrounding him.  

He ran across the field, firing his rifle at any walkers that were to close.  He kept at it until he ran out of ammo, then using the gun to push and bash them away as he drew closer to the outhouse.  

"Sarah!!  Sarah it's me Ethan!!" he yelled.

"Ethan!!"

He shoved off the few at the outhouse door, but with the horde now surrounding them he had no choice but to enter with her and close it back up.

"You found me?" she said, tears welling down her face.

"I knew I would," he said, breathing heavily.  "Where are the boys?"

She broke out even harder in tears, as the walkers again began to claw at the wood.  

"They didn't make it," she said through sobs, barely being able to speak from utter fear.  "You should have stayed away."

She lifted her arm and showed him a large piece of her flesh was bitten off.  Ethan's heart sunk into his chest.

A few walkers entered the house that they were all under.  Dallen ran over and shut the door, locking it tight.

"Now we have a bigger problem," Dallen said.