• i picked up rose and began to run towards my house. one of the infected had caught up to us. but this one was different she was much faster than the rest. something was different but i couldnt explain what though. when i finally made it to the house i locked the door before the infected woman had reached my house. i ran upstairs into the attic and saw travis, he had a worried expression on his face. "we need to escape this village". he said i looked outside and realized that there was a thick wire connecting all the houses together. i put rose down and grabbed a bunch of arrows and paper. luckily everyone was on their balconies so i was able to shoot arrows on their balcony floors. i missed a few shots but i was able to hit a few infected. i told travis that i had sent notes to people to use something that could carry people across the wires. alright sounds like a good plan he said i realized that he had found weapons and had already packed food for the journey we knew we would face. when everyone had taken baskets and attachted them to the wires people began to put thieir packs of food into them with the women and children. travis and i did the same thing, he also gave me arrows and bows to protect myself and rose. when rose and i came to the first platform we got out and took the packs of food and water out, then we pushed the basket back to travis. when travis came to the platform that we were on he took out weapons and a a pack that was big enough to hold a child in. here he said this is to carry rose in. he hands me the large pack, after i put rose in we continue with the other people to each platform until we reach the last platform. i made sure that everyone was there including john,his wife,milinda and anna marie. we all looked down at the floor and saw the infectecd. people began to shhot their arrows at the infected many had killed them, i was able to shoot 20 of them. when it was safe enough the men pulled down a rope and climed down. when it was safe for the women to climb down i was one of the first to climb down. after everyone had climbed down we all looked at at the gate. when we were outside of the village a few of the men decided to close the gates to keep the infected in there until they finally died of starvation. afrer everyone was down i looked at the path ahead of us so did travis. i shuddered at the thought knowing that a fence was the only thing protecting us from the infected, knowing that one day the gate could break i was afraid to even go near it. we began to walk down the path, most of the children began to whimper because the sensed the fear that everyone had. mothers tried to quiet them but they just kept whimpering until they fianlly cried. children who were still infants were taken out of there packs mothers tried to hush them that way. a few children had quit down except rose and ana marie i looked down the long path that was ahead of us. the infected pushed their bodies and faces against the fence they tried to put their arms through the fence i had that feeling like my stomach was turned upside down. everyone started to walk the path the men first then the women and children while i walked down the path i looked at the infected their eyes looked empty and full of death their skin had begun to rot some of the infected couldnt even walk they were crawling. i tried to ignore them but their moans made me notice them.when we went farther into the path we came across a fork we had no idea which way to take i took out the peice of metal that i had found and compared it to the poles that stood in between each of the paths.