“Just wanted to check on your progress,” the Governor announces, coming into the room in a smart leather vest, a pistol holstered on his thigh, and his hair pulled back and away from his chiseled features. “Very impressive work,” he says, coming over to Lilly’s bin and glancing down at the gelatinous contents. “Might need to procure a few morsels later for feeding purposes.”
Lilly doesn’t look up. She keeps chopping, tossing, and wiping the edge of her blade on her jeans. At last she pulls an entire upper body cavity, which still has the cadaver’s head attached, across her chopping area.
“Carry on, troops,” the Governor says with an approving nod, before turning and heading for the door. As he slips out of the room, Lilly murmurs something under her breath that no else can hear.
The voice in her head—firing across the synapses in her brain—reaches her lips on barely a whisper, directed at the Governor.
“Soon … when you’re not needed … this will be you.”
She brings the axe down again and again.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Robert Kirkman is best known for his work on The Walking Dead and Invincible for Image Comics and SKYBOUND. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics and is an executive producer and writer on AMC’s critically acclaimed television series The Walking Dead.
Jay Bonansinga is a critically acclaimed horror novelist whose works include Perfect Victim, Shattered, Twisted, and Frozen. His debut novel, The Black Mariah, was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously.
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E-ISBN 9781250013446
First Edition: October 2012
