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[b]Aaden[/b]

As Jay's skull was crushed under the impressive force of Madison's fireboots, all eyes fell upon the broken body of the turned animal. So many questions! The news had skimped over the issue of animal infection, and this certainly put a new perspective on things. More gun fire below added to the building tension, but it was also enough to restart the upwards exodus of Three Tower's residents. 

Aaden left his apartment with the best of intentions, to lend his assistance to his beleaguered neighbours. Unfortuantely, Aaden hadn't been present when Jay had ripped a woman's throat from her neck. As Madison and John put the animal down, they too had forgotten the peril. 

With a ryhtmic spasm and a gasp, Elaine Fletcher, a 29 year old elementary school teacher, opened her glassy eyes. Aaden's leg was close at hand, and Elaine grabbed it with an ironclad grip. Her jaw opened, and congealing blood from her neck wound sloshed out onto Aaden's feet as she went for a fatal bite. 

[b]The Lobby[/b]

The Stage One infected poured into the lobby like a celebrating football team back late from the local bar. They stumbled and staggered, tripping over themselves as they surged towards the stairs. They could both smell and hear their prey, and their excitement drove them against the benches. Frustrated, they pushed against them, groaning in dismay that their meal should be withheld. The benches creaked and buckled under their weight, and the statue wobbled with each convulsing shove of the dead. It would not hold for long. 

Outside of the apartment building, more of the infected were coming, brought forth by the continuing gun fire. They numbered a hundred, slinking out of every dark corner the night had to offer. Most of them were stage ones, but a few stage twos broke from the masses, intent on being the first ones to savour the impending meal.