LII

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Delilah followed everyone else out of the town leaving their guilt behind. Glenn and Nickolas were still out there somewhere. No building was set on fire and there were no signs of them.

When they finally reached Alexandra they had to inform everyone else about the status of the herd and that Rick and Shane would be back any minute with the herd. Delilah's heart ached for Maggie when she didn't see Glenn with them.

Delilah got filled in on the people breaking into Alexandria. The horn came from one of their vehicles. Carol and Morgan defended the community.

Delilah sat and waiting for Rick and her husband to come through the gate. She sat and watched the gate by her porch, still dirty from their travel back home. She jumped up when faint voices were heard from over the gate.

Delilah ran over to the gate as someone pulled it open revealing the two men running full speed in front of her with thousands of walkers behind them.

When they made it through Delilah ran into Shane's arms bringing him into an embrace. "Are you okay?" Shane asked in distress with his wife in his arms.

"Don't worry about me. Are you okay" She asked letting go and grabbing his face examining him. Shane nodded and examined her in the process.

They let go of each other and looked back at the walls. Walkers were banging on the walls from the other side bringing terror to the community. People were starting to gather around the walls.

"You can hear it. Some of you saw it. They got back here, half of them. Still enough to surround us twenty deep. Look, I know you're scared. You haven't seen anything like this. You haven't been through anything like this. But we're safe, for now. The panel the truck hit seems to still be intact. We reinforced it just in case. Either way, the wall's gonna hold together. Can you?" Rick circled as he talked to look at all the people.

"The others, they're gonna be back." Rick told them with determination looking at the worried Rhee behind him.

"They're gonna be back." Rosita repeated his words. Rick gave Rosita a nod and continued talking.

"Daryl, Abraham, Sasha, they have vehicles. They're gonna lead them away just like the others. And Glenn and Nicholas are going to walk through the front gate after. They know what they're doing, and we know what we need to do. We keep noise to a minimum. Pull our blinds at night. Even better, keep the lights out. We'll try and keep this place as quiet as a graveyard, see if they move on."

"This place is a graveyard." A female voice came from the crowd.

"The quarry broke open and the walkers were heading this way, all of them. The plan that Rick put into place stopped that from happening. He got half of them away. I was out there recruiting with Daryl. I wanted to get into a cannery and scavenge, and Daryl wanted to keep looking for people. We did what I wanted..... and we wound up in a trap set by those people. And I lost my pack. They must've followed our tracks. Those people who attacked us.... they found their way back because of me." Aaron confessed.

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