Epilogue

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60 years later
"Come on kids. Time to settle in. Grandma is gonna tell us a story."
"What story is it gonna be today?"
"It's gonna be a tough story, one that has lots of sad parts, happy parts, but it's a scary story, and one hell of a story at that."
"Is it true grandma?"
"Well that's for you to decide."
"What's it about?"
"It's about my life, and how I was living when I was your age. It's a story about love, and how love is stronger then any evil."
"Grandma," Jacob groaned "Lilian already reads all of these fairy tails!"
"Well it's not exactly like a fairy tail but it does kind of sound like it. This is real life, it's about your grandpa and I and how we made it through the toughest time this century has ever seen." I run my old fingers along the golden frame of a picture of us together in our old age. "There are creatures who used to roam earth, creatures who would walk along and they were very scary."
"Were you scared of them grandma?"
"Oh yes, very much so."
"Well if grandma was scared then you know it's bad, she's not scared of anything!"
"Well I was scared of a lot but there was one rule that kept me alive."
"What was it grandma?"
"That you always
Fear.
The.
Walking.
Dead."

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