The moment that the girl was inside of the house Rick turned to Hershel who was looking over the kittens in the crate and practically growled at the man, "What the hell is going on? Who was that kid?" Hershel didn't reply for a moment, too caught up in his own little veterinary world, Rick supposed, to even bother to process the questions right away. But when the elder finally did answer, Rick started to get a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.
"The truth is Rick, that kid as you call her, owns this farm and everything on it. Not me. Which was why I kept trying to get you all to leave... It isn't that I don't want to help you, but it didn't feel right to answer you're questions for her. Not when this is her home and we've all been taking advantage of it."
"That is such bullshit. She's just a kid! Why the hell should we listen to her-" Shane started to say when Hershel cut him off at the knee.
"First of all, she's older than she looks. I think before all this happened I was able to calculate her age to being in between twenty seven to twenty eight. Give or take a year of two. And second of all, you will listen to her if she tells you to go or you'll go to bed one night and never wake up."
"Wait, wait, wait-" Glenn cut in before asking in a whispered tone, "Are you saying that she'd kill us all if we refused to leave?"
Hershel stared at him for several heartbeats and then turned and started up the porch steps and called out to them, "I'll send one of the gals to fetch everyone for dinner once it's done. You can all ask your questions then." And then he too disappeared into the house after setting the little crate next to the door, just out of the way.
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Lisa had just finished showering and was stepping out of the bathroom in her bedroom when she saw Beth sitting on her bed with an first aid kit sitting next to her. Just waiting to ambush her apparently. "What you doing?" She asked the girl curiously, causing her to jump a bit and twist her body around to face her, and blushed.
"I thought I'd come up and bandage you if you were bit anywhere. Especially since the lot downstairs are pretty jumpy around people who have gotten bit." Lisa stared the girl down for a moment, wanting to tell her that the lot downstairs had every right to be jump around anyone who got bit by one of the 'thingys'.
Their bites held a weird bacteria that killed and changed pretty much everyone.
Still, she had to admit- the girl had a good idea.
Especially since her entire left arm and various parts of her torso were covered in bite markings. They were old of course, from back before the outbreak by at least ten years or so. But she doubted that would matter much to a bunch of paranoid gun toting strangers just trying to survive.
"That's...a good idea actually," Lisa said as she dried her long hair a bit more and then dropped her hands to her sides and sighed. She was glad someone caught her mistake before she wound up with a bullet in her skull. "Mind if I get some clothes on before you make me a mummy?"
Beth giggled and turned back around so that she at least had some privacy while dressing. And sat there laughing quietly at her while Lisa pulled on her panties, a bra, and a black wife beater. All while muttering and cursing under her breath when she nearly tripped over her own feet and fell before finally managing to stop struggling with her things and sat down on the bed just to the side of Beth with her brush in her hand.
"Okay kiddo, lets get this done before we're called down to suffer some food poisoning from Maggies cooking." Lisa said in an overly chipper tone, earning another laugh from Beth as she opened the kit up and pulled out several things of bandages and set them aside for a moment. And then after taking Lisa's wrist in her hand, picked up one of the rolls and begun the task of bandaging her arm.