Hollow Humans

S1 Part 4

After what happened to the camp, several of the survivors were laid out on the ground, lifeless and bit. It was a damn tragedy what happened, but no one had any control of it. Walkers never came that far out into the mountains, but because they got to eat, they migrated and attacked the camp.

Sage wanted to leave these people, but after Daryl came back without their brother, they were stuck there. They both agreed that they would stay there for a while until they found Merle before they ditched them. Enough was enough already. These people were just holding them back, and they were so stupid too by letting Andrea cradle her sister's face like it was the most precious thing in the world.

Both Daryl and Sage were clearly pissed off when Rick told the group that Andrea wouldn't allow anyone to touch her or her sister by threatening him with her gun as Sage vented, "You want her to come back just to bite our heads off?"

When no one said anything, her older brother jumped in, "Y'all can't be serious. Let that girl hamstring us? The dead girl's a time bomb."

"What do you suggest then?" Rick asked.

"Take the shot. Clean, in the brain from here. Hell, I could hit a turkey between the eyes from this distance."

The cop's wife clearly didn't like hearing that. "No. For God's sakes, let her be."

Sage shook her head at Rick, Shane, and Lori, after hearing how ridiculous they sounded before following her brother when he scoffed at them and headed over to the pile of corpses. The smell from the dead bodies lingered in their noses when they carried them. They weren't going to let it bother them though as they dragged it over the fire. This was just what Sage needed--doing more work for these ungrateful bitches while her family was slowly falling apart.

Glenn wasn't so keen though to see Daryl and his sister taking the walker over to the fire. "What are you guys doing? This is for Geeks. Our people go over there."

Sage started panting since the sorry dead prick weighed a ton, which was why Daryl turned back to Glenn. "What's the difference? They're all infected." 

"Our people go in that row over there." When they heard his sharp tone, both Daryl and Sage dropped the body for a brief moment to hear Glenn out. "We don't burn them! We bury them, understand? Our people go in that row over there."

As much as Sage wanted to argue with him, she didn't, because she knew he wasn't going to let the issue go. He still thought of them as people. However, death was simply a roadblock away from him. They were going to see plenty of it. That was why Daryl and Sage didn't particularly care what these people thought if most of the group wasn't going to survive and end up like one of those walkers.

Glancing at each other, one look became an agreement to just do what the Asian kid wanted, so Sage and Daryl grabbed the dead guy and dragged him over to the RV, but it didn't stop his mouth from moving. "You reap what you sow." When Morales told him to shut up, it aggravated Daryl even more as he dropped the body and told the entire group off, "Y'all left our brother for dead! You had this coming!"

When Daryl went over to grab the pickaxe, Sage watched him and slowly sank in the poison coming out of his voice, but Sage didn't blame him. In fact, she was just as pissed off since they still couldn't find Merle. Not only through Shane's lousy leadership but also Rick's action towards her eldest brother made her even more spiteful towards them. This group was simply falling apart. If Sage was being honest, she would leave them all for dead and take her daughter and brother away already to find Merle, but it would be a problem without supplies, and Daryl couldn't rob them by himself. Sage could help, but someone had to look after Kaylee Jo, so Daryl and Sage decided to stay with the group until they found Merle.