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As you watch the zombie mailman, you spot the neighbor's door open, and a black woman in a bathrobe bursts from the home. She wears her undeath well, with cracked and bruised skin, erratic movements, and long bulging brown veins throughout her face and arms. The infection has lightened her dark brown skin and elongated her feet such that blue, fluffy slippers bulge. Her bathrobe has slipped open revealing soiled pajamas. She turns to Heather in a slow arc and sprints toward her. Heather faces away from the zombie and does not notice the imminent threat.

You wait until the zombie neighbor is close, then aim and fire. Her right leg twists from the shot, exposing purplish muscle beneath. A spray of blood darkens the pavement, and the zombie falls to the ground. Heather spins toward the zombie, moves to the front of the jeep, and draws her pistol, hands shaking.

The zombie's head lifts, and she snarls at you with a mouth of hooked brown teeth. You fire again and send a bullet into her open mouth and out the base of her skull in an explosion of bone shards and dark matter. She collapses face first onto the sidewalk.