Chapter 257
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Note; This Mary is not Mary Marvel, but rather a character from "the Walking Dead." To avoid confusion, we will hence refer to her as Mary T.
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Alexis followed Garek's plan and walked up to Terminus. She was welcomed by a woman named Mary.
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Alexis: Will you take me in here?
Mary T: Ofcourse. You saw the recent fall of government?
Alexis: Yes. When the riots started I hid in my apartment, glad I had stockpiled enough canned goods. But they couldn't last forever. I heard reports of a new government, and extra-judicial executions.
Mary T: How close were you to the old government?
Alexis: An officer in the old government offered me certain, protection, if I had sex with him. Protection and extra rations during the battle. But it drew the jealousy of another man, one who soon became an officer in the new government. I didn't want to take any chances.
Mary T: Fair point. As you know, we are in Hell. We die here, we go to the Lake of fire.
Alexis: Where we get tortured for what seems like eternity.
Mary T: And me and my children will do "anything" to avoid that.
Alexis: I undersand that. In my old world, as the asteroid was coming, I was afraid. I did things to survive, but the more I did the more afraid I was of being sent to Hell. So I just tried to survive as long as possible. I got into an Ark, but my baby didn't. So I shot my own baby, put him out of his misery so he wouldn't freeze or starve to death. I went to the Ark, I had the chance to reproduce but I didn't have the emotional strength for that. I just lived out the rest of my life, trying to forget the world before. I assure you I was not alone in that. As you can see I still died, still got sent to Hell. And I'll do anything to avoid the fire and brimstone that I grew up fearing.
Mary T: I'm glad to hear that. I always thought that, if there was a Hell, it couldn't be much worse than my reality. After the dead started walking, we all thought that the zombies were the real enemy. But say what you will about zombies, they weren't cruel for the sake of cruelty. They didn't rape or torture people for sadistic pleasure, they were just hungry. It was other humans who attacked us, who repayed our mercy with rape and torture. After that, we knew. You're either the butcher, or the cattle.
Alexis: You did what you had to do to survive, now you do what you have to do to avoid more torture. Believe me, I'm willing to do my part.
Mary T: Excellant. Are you certain you will do anything that is neccessary?
Alexis: I am.
Mary T: Have you ever seen cannibalism?
Alexis: I've heard rumors. For three years I saw my world slowly fall apart as the hope for the future faded away. I got to the Ark a month and a half before impact, I didn't see how bad it got in those final days. But I had heard of morlocks who would abduct people and cannibalize them. That's one reason I killed my own baby, I couldn't bear the thought of him being eaten.
Mary T: Sounds like those "morlocks" did what they had to do to survive. And in that sense, we were no different from them or the walkers. Is that something you're really willing to do to survive?