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[url=https://youtu.be/MwVLpsgAe8E]Diana’s Theme
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She smelled him before she saw him and so had raised her Head Cracker holding it in a high stance her feet placed in a wide stance so she could pour every ounce of her weight and strength into the swing and the skinny tall infected male didn’t keep her waiting. Leaning back just before the swing and then pushing all of her body into the [url=https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/416imgqi%2BcL.jpg]Bat[/url] she connected hearing a half second later the crack of bone breaking as she stepped aside the Infected falling to the ground near her feet. Recovering the bat as Wain’s had taught her she brought it down on the back of the skull of the now still attacker making an insurance deposit that he was now permanently dead.

[center][b]”If you can hit them twice to make sure they stay down cause you never know”[/b][/center]

Diana then remained where she was her ears and eyes sweeping the area for any signs he had friends as she worried if the sounds of her bat strikes might have alerted any of the Windmill people. The birds had stopped singing momentairly laying low till they could decide if the coast was clear as a light breeze stirred the leaves forcing her to rely on her sharp eyes.

After two minutes to clear the area of any chance of other infected Diana headed to Redhawk taking care to go on her belly at least four times so she could listen from a hiding place in the scrub. She had a good laugh inside her own head thinking how silly she would have looked to the pampered and careless old self. She was now what she’d always called a human animal but never really meaning it or understanding it, a clever animal; a breathing animal.

There was good reason most animals moved through the world in a state of paranoia, they didn’t want to be eaten and in the natural world everything was food to something else eventually.

When she found Redhawk he only acknowledged her with a small toss of his head because he too understood that sound was a sure way to let things know he was near.  So she inched close to his legs and waited about 45 minutes before slowly standing and once completely erect she stood as still as a statue for another 15 minutes paying close attention to her horses ears and nostrils as she used her eyes to scan the terrain for movement. 

Satisfied that she was alone; no more infected or breathing she lead Redhawk out of their temporary hiding place moving back the way she had come so she could keep as much of the ridge between herself and the windmill. As she and her only companion a horse walked a meandering course between the low scrub she thought more about her situation.

[b][u]Alone verses the Unknown[/u][/b][list]
[*]Alone she was an easy target for every manner of predator breathing or infected. Sure she could depend on Redhawk but even he could be slipped up on like they were about 7 days ago; she had been lucky when the three infected stepped on a mirror hidden beneath the leaves around her camp.
[*]Unknown she could be walking into a situation where the people there were ruled by a despot who would force her to be their doctor and allow his thugs turns with her a situation she couldn’t allow.
[*]Alone she was human and needed the company of her kind or she’d soon be carrying on conversations with Redhawk and expecting or fabricating answers to keep her company.
[*]Unknown she could have everything including her horse taken and be herself sold to some Trader who dealt in slaves; she had met two women with hollow eyes who had managed to escape such a situation about a month ago. She had to kill them when they tried to kill her and take her things. What a waste.
[*]Alone all her knowledge both before and after the outbreak would die with her and it seemed a crime to allow that to happen. She had no aspirations that she was the keeper of knowledge but she did know that letting the knowledge of medicine slip even further back than it already had against her oath to aid those that needed her and out here by herself she was in violation of that same oath.
[*]Unknown…..To hell with the unknown she thought as she wheeled Redhawk toward the Windmill[/list]