From Cluj to Athene - Part 37

A few moments later, into the ship, Alina, Ana and two other women's have been put into a room with four bed-bunks, two desks and one working refrigerator with supplies like salami, yogurt and any other food who are kept on the refrigerator. Alina is looking at Ana, and she is asking her.

"How are you feeling?"

"Great." says Ana staying on her bed which is next to Alina. "There could've been a TV here, or a charger for my phone."

"You have brought your phone with you?"

"Yes. Although, it has zero battery. And I also took Cassandra phones after she... got killed..."

"Oh. I see."

"Alina. Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure."

"Have you ever thought about the possibility of people living after they were infected?"

"Where did that come from?"

"I was thought about it. You know, in movies, people are chopping their hands or legs to stop the infection."

"I haven't seen many movies about this."

"No? Anyway, if the things applied to movies are true, do you think this might happen in real life?"

"Um. I don't know. Probably."

"Aha... What if Laura was bitten?"

"What?" asks Alina not seeing that one coming. "What do you mean bitten?"

"Think about it. Why isn't she here? She wished as much as we do to come here. What is the reason she abandoned us at the last moment? And I haven't seen her on this ship."

"Neither I have. But you probably got a point." Alina is leaving her bed, and she looks at Ana. "I am heading outside."

"Okay. Be careful."

"I will." says Alina before she left the room and took the left then goes straight on the hallway to the door leading to the deck of the ship.

After almost one minute, Alina opens the hatch and got to the deck area, where a few survivors are staying there, some of them having ripped clothes, crying on the corners for some reasons and there is one kid who sits alone. Alina saw that kid and he goes to him. It looks like a girl, probably at the age of nine, she though Alina at first. The girl is having a lot of bruises on her face and some on the arms of the T-shirt. Alina is looking at the girl, and the girl if scared by Alina presence.

"Hello?" says Alina in Romanian language, and the girl, is looking relieved at her.

"Are you speaking Romanian?" asks the little girl in Romanian.

"Yes." responds Alina. "Where are you coming from?"

"G-Greece. My parents moved here three weeks ago..."

"And? Are they here?"

The little girl cries, and then she looks straight into Alina eyes.

"They are go-gone. They have left me... L-Left me al-alone. O-On Th-this ship."

While the little girl was sobbing and crying like a fountain, Alina hugs the small girl, and she tells her that everything will be alright, and she will try to find them. Even though Alina doesn't know much about this small girl, she can be certain that her parents are already long gone from this world and in their zombie forms.

Alina is looking around, she sees a soldier standing there still, with a submachine gun on his arms, he goes with the little girl to that man, and he asks him a question in English language.

"Do you know where are the parents of this little girl?"

"No." says the soldier in English after a while he analyzed the girl. "I have never seen this girl here before. She must've been coming from the truck earlier. Go and talk with Cadet Truman. He is the one dealing with survivors and grouping them. He can be found on the accommodation part of the ship." he points at the windows where a few soldiers and sealers are staying there and discussing.

Alina takes the little girl hand, and she is heading there to see if she can talk to that man called Cadet Truman.

***

Meanwhile, on a room designed for medical emergencies, Alin is having an inspection to his wound at his leg. There are two doctors and a nurse looking at the wound who got recently a few stitches from the man who lives in the Gas Station. The group of medics is feeling curious about the man who was able to do that, but unfortunately, they were speaking Greek and Alin didn't know Greek at all, and even if he knew some English, the doctors there aren't able to speak it or understand it. So, Alin was just getting checked by people who aren't speaking the same language as him.

About five minutes later, the doctors are calling a translator to them, who's speaking Romanian which is extremely convenient. Alin is telling that translator all the things he endured of the following days to come here, from their departure from Cluj Napoca to their arrival at Athena. The doctors were astonished by Alin and his friend's journey, and one doctor asked the translator a question, and the translator asked Alin in Romanian.

"Have you encountered any zombie types?"

"There were a few," says Alin to the translator which he replies to the doctors in Greek. "Some were jumping very high, others were eating other zombies and there were others who were climbing. I mostly saw those while I was in Bulgaria and especially on the highway to Athena."

The translator say all the things Alin told in Romanian in Greek language and all the doctors doesn't look that excited since they have probably seen those types of zombies or described by other survivors on this ship.

"How many people you have lost?" asks the translator. "On this run of yours?"

"I think there were almost ten on our group. But there were a lot when the plane has crashed in Bulgaria." replies Alin to the translator, which he told to the doctors in Greek.

Alin sees a doctor noting something on a clipboard, then he decides to ask the translator what they are writing, and the translator told them it is some details they needed it for the time when they will be getting into the islands.

After a few minutes of Alin giving a few details about him, the doctors are leaving Alin alone, and the translator is also tagging along with those doctors. After they left, Alin is staying on his bed, he is looking at his leg bandaged and cleaned up by those nice doctors. He looks on the small window on his room where he could see the sky starting to turn gray which means the rain is about to come, sooner or later. But Alin has other plan, he wanted to relax so decided to nap, just like other people from this room.