[center][H1][color=f49ac2]Lyla O'Riley[/color][/H1][/center]

Lyla finished burying her mother and the farm hand next to her father in the family cemetary. It had taken her two days to do it but she wasn't going to have her mother and Jerry done wrong if she could help it. She wished she could do something about a nice headstone. Lyla looked around in her old room and found her old woodburning kit. She pulled a couple of planks off of the pile Jerry had set to fix the fence with. She took them inside and Lyla sat down and burned their names into the planks. 

After that was done she started to take stock of her mother's kitchen. There was enough for a couple of weeks if she stayed and was cautious. The problem she was starting to see was that there were walkers coming out of the city and towards the farm. The animals were drawing them to her home. She barred the doors with heavy furniture and kept the drapes pulled shut and the lights off at night. It was a creepy feeling. 

That first day she had pulled her car up to the back door so that if she had to run in a hurry there would be nothing between her and her car. For the next couple of weeks she stayed inside. She had seen the walkers deteriorating more and more each day. She knew it meant that their bodies would be less difficult to fight but at the same time they were gory and grotesque. Lyla cried when she heard them eating the animals, their screams were horrifying. Many of them ran, like the chickens and the horses, but the cows were basically stupid animals and stood there while they ate on them. When she peaked between the drapes she would see the most disgusting sights she could never unsee.

Lyla looked out and realized she couldn't stay at the farm. Every day there were more and more walkers and she was almost out of food. She hadn't seen anyone come down the road in a car since that first day.  She pulled out the maps and determined what direction to go. Bloomington, Il was dead so was the surrounding area. She decided southeast would be better. Even if there were walkers she had to manage to survive the weather and up north without electricity was not something she wanted to try. 

The morning she decided she would leave she had the last of the food and a couple of water bottles as well as a few weapons, clothes, essentials only. Lyla found some oil and an extra tire for her car. She had been stocking the car when there weren't any walkers around. She found an extra gas can and managed to siphon some gas from Jerry's truck. 

Lyla stopped at her parents graves and spent a few moments speaking to them. When she was ready she went out the back door and climbed into her car. She started it up and drove out to the road and every so often she would run down a walker. She just kept going southeast. She was praying that the south was doing better than the north was.

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