Hello, my love
I heard a kiss from you
Red magic satin playing near, too
All through the morning rain
I gaze – the sun doesn’t shine –
Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind….

The former American military base bustled with strange new purpose.  Helicopters were refueled, supplies sorted.  Bullets, guns, grenades and even makeshift pipebombs, were placed in every jeep the survivors could find. 

Bette, Helena, Aikane and Catherine were the strategic overseers of the military incursion. They were up against an army of the undead.

Bette and Helena would lead the group. 

“My mother will stay far behind with the baby.” Helena drew a picture of what would be their formations.  “If infection begins to spread, if it looks like we’re beginning to lose…if somehow, this all fails, I want my mother, our daughter, and a pilot to fly out of here immediately.”

“You and Bette though…” Catherine looked the two over—she wondered if they were even taller than before, but then noticed that they had their boots on and she did not.  “You two have to get to her as well.”

“We’ll do our best. We just need a contingency plan for the baby.” Bette spoke quickly, dismissively, as though the possibility of leaving her child orphaned would not pose a difficulty for her. “We move out tomorrow…” She added.

“No, we need at least another day.” Shane interrupted, breathless, a piece of paper in her hands. “And we found something.”

Aikane took it from her, reading it quickly.

“hell yeah.” She grinned. “a FUCKING aircraft carrier! Big enough to take all of us..where did you find this babe?”

Shane looked proud of herself, and grinned when she earned a kiss from her new (and probably temporary, they all thought in secret) girlfriend. “I just found this list of supplies. The carrier is on the other side of the island, just past where we’ll most likely find the infected.”

Later, they tried to clean up the mess left by the last round of infected. Mops, buckets, water, and industrial soap were dragged up and down hallways.  They didn’t want maggots and the smell of rot marring their last few nights of sleep. And then they heard the sound…