Heavy duties

Gone with the stream

Vasquez was an asshole. He wasn't having any of the sorrow I felt towards my daughter ( even if she wasn't really dead, just far away from me) and commanded us to keep on going. Since Warren agreed, we had no choice. I and Murphy stayed in the back of the crowd, just lazily stomping onwards until the group stopped. 

- '' There's a ferry'', Addy called as we arrived at a river. Near the river was, indeed, a ferry, but it was filled with zombies. Everyone took out their guns except for me. 

- '' Murphy, mind helping?'', Vasquez asked but Murphy was too busy picking his breakfast off his teeth. 

- '' Why would I ever do that?'', he asked, sounding arrogant. Vasquez let out a frustrated sigh before they shot all the z's and we took the ferry to cross the river. 

The river seemed calm today. I was drifting into my own thoughts. I wondered how Lucy was doing. Was she confused? Did she miss me? Was she even able to do that? 

- '' What's that?'', Addy asked and everyone got up to check. We saw a little boat float towards us and on it, there were Doc's friends, Sketchy and Skeezy. They didn't look like they were doing well but for some reason, they were still alive. 

- '' Stop the ferry!'', Doc demanded.

- '' Don't stop the ferry!'', Murphy answered but I guess we had to take them with us. 

- '' Small world, huh?'', Warren crossed her arms. 

- '' Not those story-tellers'', I rolled my eyes and decided to ignore all of them. 

- '' Nothing a little speaking can't help. You know, we are all trying to look for a connection'', Sketchy explained something and winked at me. 

- '' Watch it'', Murphy grunted. 

- '' When we are in a very, very bad situation, we always go for the '' Murphy-lie'', Skeezy joined. 

- '' What's that?'', Murphy asked, now interested. 

- '' We pretend to be THE Murphy. We've actually met him'', Sketchy continued. 

- '' Oh, have you?'', Murphy raised his eyebrow. 

- '' Yes, he is at least 2 meters tall and can levitate. He walks on all fours'', Skeezy explained like he'd seen something that truly scared him. I snorted which made everyone turn their heads toward me. 

- '' You don't believe us? Just wait till you see him with your own two eyes'', Sketchy spoke as he leaned closer to me. 

- '' Yeah sure'', I said before our boat thumped into something. For a while, there was quiet before a pack of zombies started to climb up our boat. 

- '' Everyone leave the boat!'', Warren commanded as we jumped into the water. 

I got up from the river, coughing and spitting water out of my lungs. I dragged myself towards the shore before I heard someone else struggling just as much as me. I turned around and saw 10K going with the stream and I jumped up to help him out. After we both gathered ourselves, we looked around. Nobody else was there. 

- '' Great, what now?'', I asked with my hands on my hips. Right after that, we heard someone else cough up too. We turned around to see Sketchy trying to gather his things around. We looked at each other with 10K before walking up to him to offer some help. 

- '' Thank you, youngsters. I guess it's just the three of us now'', he spoke with a depressed tone which probably was just a bluff. 

- '' Uhm'', I started but he interrupted me.