Journal Entry #5

Adam discusses the detection process.

Written and Voiced by Adam Botsford
Original music by Ian Botsford

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Read by Adam, Man's voice

Journal Entry # 5

Quarantine.

We've developed a rudimentary and relatively primitive method of evaluating people we encounter. It's only really been tested once but the methods we use are based on observations. First there is the dog test. Arrayah, in all her sniffing glory, seems to be able to pick up the smell of contamination. We only have guesses about what she smells. Maybe it's a hormone change. Maybe it's the smell of the victim's body succumbing to the zombie wound. Maybe she even smells the origin, like some cancer sniffing hospital dog. We aren't scientists, we just trust it to work. The next is time. A bit victim succumbs. Every time. Our guess is that the average person's system converts in 3-5 days. Converting really just means that the body dies and then re-animates. We have yet to find an exception. I wish we would. It would offer some hope that a cure or vaccine might be possible but even my typically idealistic brain dismisses that one quickly. So we wait. Being holed up in a zoo has its perks. We can contain things. Trap them. And wait.

Sadly, waiting is what we seem to do the most of.