"That bird has been circling around for awhile now, Zero." Trix said, looking up at the bird from earlier. It was still circling and steadily getting lower.

Zero pulled on his sunglasses and looked up at the bird Trix was talking about, it was a hawk for what he could gather. It had the same body type and wing span as one. "Looks hungry." he noted looking back ahead of him.

"For what?" Trix asked, bumping into Zero. "What the hell, Zero?" he snapped.

"I'm guess that's what he's circling." Zero replied, pointing a figure a few yards ahead of them moving in weird patterns. "Guns ready." he whispered to Trix as he took his safety off. Trix nodded and readied his gun and they inched forward.

"What are they doing?" Fares asked Sy, watching Trix and Zero go stealth.

Sy sighed, stopping and grabbing her binoculars from her bag. Focusing them right, all she saw was Zero and Trix, they were blocking what they were going after. "I can't see what their doing." she told them putting the binoculars away. "Stay behind me." she ordered, picking up her pace to get to the other two.

When she got up behind them, their guns pointed to the ground and eyebrows raised as they watched a half naked guy dancing in circles with his arms out like a plane, babbling weird shit. The six stood and watched him for a bit, confused to what the hell was going on.

"Sun fry is brain?" Björne asked.

"Possible." Zero answered.

"No, it's not." Sy replied, pulling her goggles up and narrowing her eyes. "Wound on his neck." she pointed out. "He's infected."

As if saying he was infected was the key to the locked door the guy stopped and looked at them, still babbling under his breath. He eyes were utterly blood shot, skin dry as the ground they stood on and flaky. Dry blood was caked onto his neck, shoulder and chest from where he had been bitten and he was missing the ear on that side.

"We will all die." he hissed in a creaked voice. "All will die."

Alex stepped around Sy to step closer, but Sy's arm came out, barring him from going any farther. She shook her head at him, pulling her gun from her back. Sy released the safety with her thumb, staring at the infected man before them.

"Do you remember your name?" she asked him.

The man paused, looked to the ground confused, mumbling something under his breath as he did.

"What's his name matter?" Fares asked. Zero waved him off.

"What's your name?" Zero asked.

"Matthew was my name, death is it now." the man replied, creaking his neck in a gross way as he looked back up at them.

"Matthew, it is." Sy said, pointing her gun at him. "God be with you, my friend." she told him.

"And death with you." he replied.

Sy nodded and pulled the trigger. The shot rang out in the emptiness and the dull thud of Matthew followed after. Cautiously stepping closer and standing over Matthew, her gun pointed at his chest, blood oozing from his forehead. "Death is always with me," she whispered. "What makes me human." She held the trigger for a moment, letting off a short automatic round into Matthew's chest. Putting the safety back on the gun and shoving it back in her back waistband, Sy looked up at Trix.

"Dig the hole." she said softly, walking away from the body.

"You killed him." Alex growled as she walked by him. She twisted back around and looked up at him, anger flaring in her eyes.

"Alex, he was infected. He was dead and dying before we ever got here. He would have turned into those things that attacked us last night and were running wild in the dark after that in search of some poor innocent person to feed on and turn into one of them. I put him out of his misery and out of our thoughts and fears."

"But why did you ask his name?" Fares complained again.

"Everyone deserves a name on their gravestone." she answered, going over to Zero to talk to him. "How far are we from camp? Sy asked her brother, standing over him. "I need to check and change Alex's bandages."

"About a mile," Zero answered, looking over a small map he had. "Maybe less." Sy nodded, looking over at Trix as he dug a hole to bury Matthew in. "You did the right thing, Sy." Zero said looking up at her.

"Did I?" she sighed, squatting in front of Zero. "Are we?"

Zero held Sy's cheek in his hand and smiled at her, "This is all we can do now, Sy." he told her. "Or we'll end up just liked Matthew over there and I can't let that happen to any of us. I won't let it."

"I know, but I can't help but think about..."

"Shh, I know. Don't say it." Zero cut her off. Sy dropped her head, squeezing her eyes shut a moment, pushing back old, but fresh, memories.

"I'm gunna go help Trix. Make it go faster." she said, standing up.

"Okay." Zero nodded, pressing his lips together as he watched her walk away. "and I'm sorry." he whispered to the wind.

Not wanting to touch Matthew's bloody and infected body, Sy, Zero and Trix rolled him into the grave with their boots. Trix dropped a rock with a piece of paper tied around it with Matthew's name on it into the grave, then they covered the grave up again. Sy stood at the foot of the grave as Zero stood at the head of it. Trix, Fares, Alex and Björne stood to one side, watching the other two fold their hands in front of them and bow their heads.

"What are they doing?" Björne whispered into Trix's ear.

"Saying a prayer." Trix answered. "Sy and Zero are very religious when it comes to shit like this. Especially now a days."

A gentle wind blow as Zero and Sy said a prayer over Matthew's grave, it was cooling to the scorching heat of the day sun. Their 'Amen' blow swiftly away with it as they finished their prayer and picked their weapons back up off the ground, they nodded at each other as they strapped them on.

"Let's go." Zero said, heading up the group. "We're almost there and it's not even noon yet."

"Thank god." Björne groaned, making Sy smile and laugh amused.