Hollow Humans

S2 Part 5

Rick wished everyone a good morning before gathered them over to the truck so that he could lay out the map to come up with a plan to search for Sophia. Carol said she would watch over Kaylee Jo to which she thanked her for before heading on over to the rest of the group as she stood by her brother's side while he put his shirt on. Rick explained that everyone was getting new search grids and reminded them that if Sophia made it as far as the farmhouse, then she might have gone further east than the group had been. 

"I'd like to help," Jimmy said making his way over to the group. "I know the area pretty well and stuff."

"Hershel's okay with this?" Rick asked.

"Yeah. Yeah. He said I should ask you."

"All right then. Thanks."

Normally, Sage didn't like working with more people, but it was quicker to find Sophia this way, but she just wanted Walsh to shut his mouth when he opened his disgusting mouth, "Nothing about what Daryl and Sage found screams Sophia to me. Anyone could have been holed up in that farmhouse."

Sage had enough of Walsh. She knew he just wanted to give up this search and go to Fort Benning because he thought it was easy to leave Sophia for dead. God forbid if it was Carl out there. She wondered if he would still act this way or if he would only go out there just to impress Lori. Either scenario didn't look good on him. 

"Except whoever slept in that cupboard was no bigger than my daughter," Sage pointed out, causing Shane to look at her since her attitude told him to back off a bit.

"Maybe we'll pick up her trail then," Rick said.

"No maybe about it," Daryl jumped in as he pointed to the map. "I'm gonna borrow a horse, head up to the ridge right here, take a bird's-eye view of the whole grid. If she's up there, I'll spot her."

Sage smirked as she turned to her brother. "Smart. Gonna find a Chupacabra up there too?" 

"Chupacabra?" Rick asked.

As Sage handed him a rifle, she explained, "When our family went camping, Daryl went out squirrel hunting. He later came back and told us that he saw a Chupacabra."

When Jimmy laughed a bit in his throat, Daryl narrowed his eyes at him. "What are you braying at, jackass?"

"You believe in a blood-sucking dog?" Jimmy scoffed.

Sage's grin couldn't get any wider when she heard her brother, "Do you believe dead people walking around?"

At least Daryl made her day. She could always joke around with him. With Merle, not so much. He didn't have the same sense of humor as them by making nasty and crude puns. It always made Daryl and Sage ignore him while they went off on their own and Merle went with his friends to wreck some havoc.

Jimmy then reached out for the gun on the hood, but Rick stopped him. "Hey, hey, ever fire one before?"

"Well, if I'm going out, I want one."

"Yeah, and people in Hell want slurpees," Daryl chimed in while throwing his crossbow over his shoulder before leaving to start looking for Sophia.

Sage then looked over at Shane when she heard him say, "Why don't you come train tomorrow? If you're serious, I'm a certified instructor."

"For now he can come with us," Andrea told him.

"He's yours to babysit then."

It was soon decided that T-Dog and Shane were going together, Andrea and Jimmy became a team, and Rick took Sage since she was the best tracker and hunter after Daryl. Even though Sage wanted to go on her own, Rick argued that it was better if the rest of the group had at least someone to go with them.