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Fingers tightened around the cold steel as Katriana climbed down the ski platform ladder. The cold metal burned against her palms. A single snowflake landed on the bridge of her nose before melting almost instantly.

Then another. And another. Within seconds, a gust of wind howled, leaving the scene before her feeling more chaotic than she thought possible. 

Another scream cut through the storm. To her right, Luke was leading a cluster of walkers away from where Kenny was stationed with his rifle in hand. The man who just an hour before, held her hands so tenderly, was now waving his arms frantically as a cluster of walkers staggered after him. He hacked wildly with his machete, barely staying ahead of snapping jaws.

"Come on!" he shouted. A walker lunged and when he stepped back, Luke stumbled over a fallen log. His body slammed into the snow. For one terrifying second…Katriana watched in fear as he disappeared beneath reaching hands. Then he rolled free, scrambling back to his feet as his machete carved through the nearest walker's skull.

Ahead through a shattered window of the ski lodge, Kat caught another heart stopping scene.

Nick being forced onto his knees in a neat line with Pete beside him and Sarah trembling on his other side. Carver's people stood over them with AKs raised. Nick's face was hard and defiant, as he recognized exactly who was rounding them up. He stared at a red headed woman Katriana had never seen before with pure hatred in his eyes. 

Pete's shoulders remained straight despite the gun at his back.

Luke cried out again in the distance as he was backed up more into the forest. 

Nick couldn't move. Luke couldn’t stop moving.

Katriana’s feet felt like concrete as her heart pounded against her ribs. She needed to move. But to whom?

Luke...

Or Nick?

A trio is always difficult, when one gets left behind.

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