"Ok. You. Name?" I said, pointing to the girl who had entered first. I made my voice strong and commanding. If the girl was in any state of panic, she would listen. Mortas snapped at her at my feet.
"Ma-y-y-a. " She said.
"Weapons?"
"Bo-w-w and arr-r-ow." She said.
"Lay those put on the ground and leave them there. If you make any moves towards them, then I will consider you hostile." The girl did as so. My dad always wanted me to be the heir of the little compound out in the woods, but I needed to be as mental tough as nails for it. "Hoping I'm making you proud dad." I thought to myself.
"Last question. Please move your arm in a swinging motion." The girl- I mean Maya, did as so.
I let my face soften a bit. Might as well let her relax, because if she was too freaked out she wouldn't be useful. "I have reinforced the first floor, but if we are hit heavily then that will fall. Our best line of defense is that I knocked down the stairs leading up to the second floor, leaving us safe from zombies and other melee attackers. I have boarded up that entryway as well. The windows have been outfitted with hurricane shutters, there will be no breaking through those on any side." I said. "I was going to board up that last window, and then we are going to help Sir-faints-a-lot on the floor here. Don't move."
Maya started to talk as I hung up the boards and nailed them to the wall "Your that new girl right? How did you put up all of this so fast? What's with the spider? Where are your parents? How long do you think this is going to last? Do you think we will-"
"SHUT THE HELL UP. NOW, GO SIT IN THAT ROOM AND STAY THERE, WHILE I SAVE YOUR FRIENDS BUTT BECAUSE SHE WAS TOO DUMB TO NOT GET SHOT." I yelled, pointing to my parents room. I had enough of this bullshit. I was panicking and I was hating myself for it, because I needed myself to be stable to survive.
Maya went into the room, and then I dragged Sir Faints a lot into my room. Mortas sculled in after me, and hung from the model of a mineshaft on my ceiling.
The girl's arm had an arrow in it. It was a very light wound, but she had left a shard of the arrow in it. I pulled it out, and blood started to run from the wound.
"Oh shit oh shit oh shit." I thought to myself. I was not a medic. I put on a cloth and wrapped it around, stopping the blood flow. I took a look at the arrowhead. I had to be careful, one mistake and this girl was dead. I sweated. This room needed to have the window opened, but I dared not just in case of spiders. I was pretty sure that Mortas was one of a kind, and I did not want to risk it.
I looked at the arrow under my desk light. Damn. I couldn't find any poison on it. There had to be some. I shook it, and a milky liquid fell off of it. Well, shit. That could be anything, from either plant or animal. I took a look at the wound on the girls arm. The skin around it was black.
Cave spider poison. I knew the cure for that. There wasn't one once the health drainer was gone and the physic part set in. The nightmares, all of the nightmares. I did know that I could get her into a deeper sleep that would cause her to skip the nightmares.
However, it was in the room with Maya. Well, shit.
I walked into the room, and Maya was on the bed sulking.
"Hey asshole, you back to insult me again?" She said.
"Hey asshole, you going to shut up and let me save your friend?" I said, opening a drawer and bring out a nettle with a dosage of one night Stupor©. It was a drug my mom took every night so she wouldn't have nightmares about my father being away on guard duty, and something would go wrong and he would die. Some times, before she was on the medicine, I would listen to her screaming. She gets the next nights dosage at work, so I only had this one.
I didn't have much time. I ran out of the room, ignoring Maya's insults. I ran into my room, and then stuck the nettle in artery of the poisoned girl.
The liquid went into the girls arm, and her face relaxed. She stirred. She would be up soon.
I walked to the window, listening for outside noise. I could hear the zombies in the street, and the far off sound of gunshots. From the sound of it we were winning. I Mortas sat my feet. What would happen to us?
Now to make amends with Maya. This would take a while.