"Yeah? I think you like the idea of me... I think it might even hold together in a situation like this... At least for a while. And I think you could talk me into that comfort we could give each other, and I think you would feel completely different about me once that happened. You would think it meant that we were together, and it wouldn't mean that at all. It would mean we were scared, and we took some comfort in each other... Because the attraction was there, and because it can just be about that sometimes." She drew a breath. "But I think then I would go from princess to whore, because that's the way this world works, princess to whore in sixty seconds. I've seen it... I've felt it... And then I lose my friend, and I also hurt my friend, because he doesn't want to see it, I mean really see it for what it is." She reached one hand up and pushed Johnny's hair away from his eyes...

A great extinction event encompasses the world. In an effort to help some of the remaining population survive the governments of the world work together to release an airborne plague designed to help the populations endure the hardships and survive.

The American military neglects to inform the governments, including its own of disasters that occurred during testing. Especially that the virus will help those, still alive by enabling them to live longer with less food and water, but that it will also allow some of them to survive death itself. A different kind of life that will enable the recipient to rise, move and become some horrible parody of life. No beating heart... No vestige of the old person they used to be. Some odd caricature that rise to eat and roam the nights, and spend their days secreted away in dark places.

​However, these creatures are not completely devoid of thought. There is still purpose in their rotted brains, still motivation of a kind and so they continue their effort to finish what the extinction event did