Broken

Lost

Michonne is leaving to search for Carl and the others, I go to the trailer where Yumiko and Magna are sitting. I take a deep breath "I can't just sit here," I mutter as I pace. 

"Your dad is the tracker, right?" Magna asks, "Yeah Daryl taught me everything that he knows," I say, "So you're as good as they say he is?" she asks. 

"I mean, I guess so," I say, "Then we're going out to find them," Yumiko says as she places my weapons on the table. "Okay," I say as I grab my bow and other items. Kelly, Connie, and Luke are still in the fields, helping earn their keep. 

"What did Rosita say about the herd?" Magna asks, "She said that they were talking, whispering. They were chasing her," I say. "Is she telling the truth?" Yumiko asks. 

"I don't know, but even if she was, we have to go," I say, Yumiko nods and we all gather our weapons. "We're going, now come on," Magna says as she opens the door, "You know this place best is there a way we can get out without being seen?" Yumiko asks.

I smile as I think of the escape route that Sasha made when she and Maggie first came here. "Come on," I say as I lead them toward the secret entrance that we used during the war. 

Magna goes into the hole first, I go in next. "Here," I whisper as I hand her a flashlight. She starts to crawl to the back. 

The woods is great cover and exactly the way Michonne went. 

Daryl's bike is hidden under saplings and near those saplings are three horses. "So they were here," Magna says, "They were," I say as I bend down to look at a footprint, "No one's been here for a while though. 

"Michonne went the wrong way," I say as I point to two separate tracks. We follow the trail of large boot prints, Michonne's smaller prints meet with the older trail. Still no sign of Alden or Luke. 

 Fog settles over the terrain after the sun sets. "We're close," I say as we start through a field, "So is a herd," Yumiko says, there are about a hundred footprints. 

"Was it a herd?" Magna asks, "They never travel in a circle like that," she says. "No they don't and they were here for a while," I say as I point to where all the grass has been trampled and worn away. "At least a few weeks," I say. "We should get going," Yumiko says as she grabs my arm. 

My anxiety continues to build, it keeps getting stormier and darker. Thunder booms and I hold back a jump, we've been on the trail for almost two hours. 

"We should split up, I get Daryl and the others, you go back," I say to Magna. She pulls us to a halt, "No, we stick together if there's a herd," Yumiko says.

Magna holds her hands up, "Do you hear that?" she asks. I hear someone talking, a yell sounds through the dark and the fog. 

"It's them," I say as I run toward the sound of fighting. We come to the gates of a cemetery. "Eugene," Michonne whispers to the man on the other side of the gate, the woman begins to pull on the rusted metal but it's stuck.

"We can't get out," Eugene says. "I need you to push," Michonne says. Magna and I move to pull, "I told you to stay home," Michonne groans as we pull on the gate. "We're earning our keep," Magna says.

"I couldn't leave them stranded out here just like you couldn't," I whisper. "Where are Daryl and Carl?" I ask Eugene. I use my boot to knock some of the dirt lose from the bottom of the gate. 

"They stayed back on the down-low to distract the mutated herd," he says. I yank again on the gate this time it comes open. I almost fall back at the force of it. Magna catches me. 

Michonne grabs Eugene's arm, she drags him out. "Mutated?" I question. "How is it mutate-," that's when I hear it the gasping and the breathy whispers.