Chapter 9 (incomplete)

Joel figured he had visited a good proportion of the city's abandoned buildings in the last few hours, but he couldn't see that he had actually accomplished anything in his search. The only thing he had to show from his visits was a feeling of nausea from the overwhelming stench of the old slaughterhouse and something unmentionable that he had inadvertantly stepped in and had yet to succeed in removing from his shoe. All in all the exploration could have gone better. It was getting late, so he guessed he'd better get back to the warehouse, whatever they had been doing all day, chances were they had now stopped and returned to the base, unless he happened to have twigged that they were up to something on their day of action. He hoped and prayed that this wasn't the case.

Indeed, as he entered the warehouse everything looked much as it had done in previous nights, general activity was going on as if it had been all day, no signs of anything amiss.

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