"What kind of name is Ten Thousand?"
"What kind of name is Juggy for a girl?"
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What do you get when you mix a broken girl, a mysterious sniper, a crazy mission, and zombies?
That's still what Aria 'Juggy' Tate is trying to figure out.
After a gro...
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Only a day or two out of Cheyenne and the van had broken down, ran out of gas, and they couldn't find more, so they were forced to move on foot.
They were headed East, thanks to the fallout from the nukes, and the dust storm of radiation that was headed their way. Moving East and then South just to head West was the new plan, so they could go around the radiation cloud.
Aria could hear the rumble of thunder behind them as she hiked uphill beside 10K. She had a new spear, finally, strapped behind her back with left over rope given to her by 10K so she could carry it on her back and keep her hands free.
With some good distance between them, Cassandra trekked uphill behind the group, too. Aria wanted to turn and look at her, praying that her best friend—her sister—was still in there somewhere. But she didn't look.
"We are going the wrong direction. Again," Murphy's nagging voice whined.
"You left us no choice," Warren told Murphy from the lead. "Too much fallout in the West."
"Again. That was not my fault," Murphy said to Warren as the group came to a stop. Aria rolled her eyes at Murphy but remained silent. She knew better than to start an argument with him because he'd argue until he was blue...r in the face.
"Murphy, don't make me have to explain the term 'failsafe doomsday weapon' again. Please," Doc said to Murphy.
"How do you even know California's still there?" Murphy asked Warren, dismissing Doc's comment.
"You're looking ripe," Vasquez told Murphy before Warren could even say anything. "You better hope it's still there." He shoved Murphy forward forcefully. "Move."
Murphy turned around to look back at Vasquez as the man walked up to Murphy also, the two of them standing face to face. "You are not the boss of me," Murphy said lowly. Then, he bucked his head to Warren. "She is."
Warren moved forward quickly as Vasquez was about to retaliate. She got in the middle, holding Vasquez back with just one hand. "I can handle this," she told Vasquez. Warren shoved Murphy back, away from them both, and then she held her arm out. "Move."
"Gladly," Murphy said, turning around and moving in the direction they were moving in initially.
"You'll get used to him," Warren said to Vasquez.
Aria shook her head and mumbled to herself, "I've been traveling with him for a year and I'm still not used to him."
10K chuckled since he overheard what she said and she blushed, shoving him slightly with her shoulder as the two of them continued to follow the group.
As they walked, Aria finally sucked up her pride and turned around to look at Cassandra.
The half-zombie girl was still dressed in the gold two piece with the fishnet stockings and knee high books, the faux fur white coat still on her shoulders. She looked like a hooker and it still pissed Aria off that Murphy actually dressed her in it.
