Trust for loyalty

'I didn't expect him to be so eager,' Mathew thought as he obediently followed after Daniel's lead.

Yet, their run lasted for only a few seconds for as soon as the group moved beyond the gate and closed it behind them, Daniel came to a complete stop.

He then turned around and raised his hand to scratch the back of his ear as he then looked at Norbert. "Which way exactly should we go?"

It was a simple yet extremely important question.

'Shouldn't we just follow the direction the army of zombies took?' Mathew thought, looking at Daniel's face with a hint of confusion behind his eyes. 'Or wait, I'm dumb,' the young man was quick to chastise himself. 'If we just follow them, we would have to somehow go through all of those zombies to get to the people we want to help, wouldn't we?'

"Give me a second," Norbert replied before resting his back against the outer side of the compound's wall and closing his eyes.