Chapter 33

I shook my head. “No. Sad to say, but without me administering iodized salt to you and without you administering iodized salt to me, both of us will be . . .” I pointed to the newly arrived zombies, the groaning once again starting up all around us. “Just like them.” I dropped my hand and turned his way. “I love her. She is my life, which is really saying something these days. Out of all humanity, out of every zombie on this God-forsaken planet, billions and billions of them, she’s the one I brought back. And, though you don’t have a choice to at least stick with me, I’d like it if you wanted to stick with me, that you wanted to help.”

He sighed, a real honest to goodness sigh, which, as it’s been said, doesn’t come at all easy to our kind. “What sort of music did you lip-synch to back in the day, Creature?”

I grinned. “Mostly Britney Spears.”

The sigh repeated. “You’re not making it easy on me, are you?”

“Sometimes Cher.”