Inevitability
Half Past Dead

"To the man who's kept me safe for the past year. From Alyssa.

I know I don't have much time left here. You probably don't want to hear some kind of story that will take my time as well as yours. It's of your own free will to read this letter. Please, don't hold my death as a burden on your shoulders. Not many people would have kept me safe for this long without setting me on my own. You've been kind to me and very noble of what to do around me. I do wish that you may not be thrown off from our departure on your quest for the right answers.

Time is short and I right this with haste so please understand that I wish you the best of luck for you to continue your journey forward. I never knew your name but maybe that's probably for the best. I heard that if you give anything a certain label or name it becomes vulnerable. I guess that's what happened to me. I'm sorry I can't be with you longer. I don't know how much time I have left exactly or even what I'm dying from but I'm feeling cold. I'm not afraid either. Death is sometime you grow use to since it's all around us. Those beasts are probably alive but they were once human. Just like those zombies out there. I won't let you give up on your search for what's the cause. I'll be watching you closely. Please don't give up now. I probably shoul've told this long before now but I love you. I always have ever since you started protecting me. I know I've been mad at you a few times but those are easily forgivable. I leave this letter for you to find when embarking further down the road. Don't forget me."

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That's the letter she left me. I don't have time to feel bad for myself. The town ahead looks like it holds the answers I've been looking for. It's a gut feeling I have and I've always gone by that to keep myself alive. I can't say anything for Alyssa. She was my own guardian angel watching out for me when I was in trouble. It doesn't help me by dragging myself down with guilt so I can't let her death be on mind for now. The only thing I need to be thinking of is why the town seems to desolate even though I can tell it's been recently used.

Houses are boarded up. What houses there are anyways. Blood has painted the streets and there's a tower of some sort that looks newly constructed. Not very stable but good enough to be used as a lookout tower. Nobody in it. I've been sitting in the woods for a few days now watching the town closely to make sure anybody might be there. No lights come on at night. No sounds of laughter, voices, or even any sound at all. The main thing that worries me is the area is fenced off with a ten foot high steel fence. Barbed wire at the top as well. Looks like they don't want any contact with the outside world at all.

There's been no sign of a forced entrance or anything. I was thinking maybe the mass of zombies that attacked the town I was in had came through here. There's no evidence that there's been even one zombie through here unless you count the blood that's dried over time on the roads. Unmanned machineguns lay at the sandbags unprotected and fully armed. Not a single soul has came out of any place to check on anything. The tower just looks out of place here as well. Every house has no more than two floors including the attic. The tower seems to stand about five or six stoies tall. The entrance of it has two metal doors that look like they side open. The binoculars I have can only go so far. There's something else behidn the tower but I can't tell what it is.

The weather has been unusually cruel lately as well. It's been raining here constantly and only now stopped. Everything is soaked. Even the guns outside. Maybe there isn't anybody left on the face of this earth. If that's so I would've given up hope long ago. I need to find out what Mr. Reese was talking about. He acted as if he didn't mean for something to happen. I'll wait for two more days and if nobody seems to be making any kind of movement I'll go ahead and let myself in. I've got plenty of ammo for any kind of offense if it comes down to it. This journal is falling apart. Pages keep coming undone and falling out. I can put them back in with tape and anything else I seem to have. If somebody else finds this journal and I'm nowhere around be warned. This whole world as you know it is ending. For the past few nights I've been using a flashlight inside the car reading the bible I got from the hotel. No radio broadcasts. No sounds of birds. Not even any sounds of grasshoppers or the such. I've noticed that the sky open every once in a while only to reveal an angry red moon. The color of blood. Whatever's going to happen when I enter that town it looks like it's going to be bad. No. Not bad. Unmistakably horrible. I just hope I survive...