[It's a little scary, but it's more fascinating. The boys had always told her about old horror stories, used them as an escape from the horror they already lived in. Half the desert had homages to old movie monsters in their imagery, painted on buildings and used in masks. To hear about something real only tugged at her curiosity.]

So you really got zombies to deal with. How? I've heard of 'em but just as stories. Are the real slow and got some kind of a virus? Do ya really have to shoot the brain to keep 'em down?