"You don't need to know," Dallen said, then used his free hand to put the mask back over the woman's head.  "Blindfolded, that was the deal."

He revved the engine and sped off down the nearest highway.  The plan was to take her 18 miles out, then dump her wherever the hell that was.  He was thinking about not even letting her have the supplies he promised her.  Who would know?  She wouldn't know how to get back.  Right?  Though the humanity was still in him, and he turned away from it all.  

"It's not tight enough," Dallen reached over and pulled the bag tighter to make sure she couldn't see, yeah that was it.  "Spread your legs.  Easy honey, it's not like that." Dallen reached over and put his arm between her legs, and under the seat.  He pulled out a machete and then switched it to his left hand.  He braced a shoulder against the side of the jeep and held out the machete as they came upon a lone walker in the road.  He drove just to the side of the walker as the machete perfectly sliced through its head.  "Oh!!  You should've seen that one."

He looked over and sighed, then took off her mask.  

"You're harmless anyway," he said.

Suddenly a flare flew into the sky.  Dallen instantly knew it was one of there own, as he had picked up the flare guns from the helicopter.  There was a chance it could be someone else, but he knew it wasn't likely.  Dallen turned onto one of the many trails and began toward it.

"Strap in," he said.

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Ethan listened to everything Reena had to say with an open mind.  She was right and he knew it.  James was actually becoming a friend as well, at least in his eyes.  He knew he had to step up, which was why he was here in the first place.

"Thank you," Ethan said.  "And I'm sorry.  I'm going to help out."

He took her hand, and went off to the dark of the forest.  The sunlight shone through in various places, but the trees and their leaves overcame the sky.  Moments later, he spotted a jack rabbit just a few feet away.

"I got it," Ethan said, rushing forward.  

The rabbit ran off and he followed.  Through the brushes and shrubs, the vines and branches.  The animal was always just out of reach, everytime he paused to aim, it moved on.  And he followed, ignoring anything Reena would say if he could hear her anyway.  He was focused.  

Finally it stopped, just atop a leaf covered hill.  He aimed and fired, hitting it directly.

"Yes!"

A few dark birds flew off from the sound, though all else remained quiet and still, a soft breeze filling the air.  Ethan rushed forward to the spot and climbed the hill.  He pushed the brushes away and spotted Reena catching up to him from a distance.

"Reena, look!" Ethan said looking her dead in the eye.  "I got it!  First try!"

It was then that Ethan looked down the hill.  There he saw them, covered and devouring flesh and guts in a pit where the hill led to.  Ethan's eyes widened in pure horror at the sight.  The dead rabbit rolled down the hill to the pit, where three angry fiends were.  They were as wide as a gorilla, and as long as a tiger.  The three infected fiends immediately noticed Ethan.

"RUN!!!" Ethan screamed to Reena.  He quickly pulled out a flare gun from his belt holster and fired it into the air.  "RUUN!!!  RUN!"

Ethan charged head on into the already moving creatures.  He raised his gun and fired useless shots at one, but they all three overwhelmed him almost immediately.

"RUUUUNNN!!!" Ethan pleaded.

The fiends ripped into him, tearing off his arms and legs as they tore out his chest.  They sunk their mouths into him and feasted.