Mischa wakes up “Liam?” She says tiredly “what happened?”. She looks over and sees Liam asleep in the corner with tears staining his cheeks. She notices his finger and is terribly concerned. Mischa walks over to Liam and wakes him up. Liam wakes up and hugs her “are you ok” he asked in a nervous and shaky tone. “I’m fine” she tells him before patting the back of his head. “Are you ok?!” She asks before holding his right hand. “I’m ok” he replied with an obvious lie. “Can you tell me what happened?” Mischa asked. Liam explains to Mischa what happened then falls back asleep.

Mischa and Liam walk to the training room when they enter they see a tall platform and a smaller platform with a rope in the middle. Liam sees Sullivan sitting on a chair in the back of the room and starts shaking a little. Mischa holds his hand and walks with him over to the ladder of the taller platform. Liam claims the ladder but is too shaky to jump to the rope. “What’s wrong?” Sullivan asks with a grin “too scared? Afraid you might get hurt?”. “Let me give you a hand” Sullivan pulls out a pistol and shoots at Liam and he winces. The bullet skimmed his ear. “Jump!” Sullivan shouts as he points the gun at Liam again.

Liam jumps and grabs the rope but slips and falls on his shoulder. He wails in pain as Mischa quickly starts walking over to him. Sullivan points the gun at her and she stops as he walks over to Liam. Liam is laying on his side silently sobbing and looks up at Sullivan. He kicks Liam in the stomach and Liam coughs up a bit of blood. “Sullivan picks Liam’s head up by the hair and looks him in the eye “this is torture” he says while smirking. Sullivan leaves and Mischa runs over to Liam and hugs him as he continues to silently cry. This continued for weeks until he could perform perfectly.

Liam walks on stage and climbs up the ladder. Sullivan is standing on his platform above the zombie audience and Mischa is in the corner watching Liam. Liam jumps and grabs the rope. His missing finger causes him to slip. He falls and lands sideways, screaming as his arm twists back and snaps. Mischa runs to him not noticing the zombies getting restless. Sullivan points his gun at Liam but Mischa throws something at him making him miss his shot. The bullet bounces off a metal object in the back and hits Sullivan. “WHAT HAVE YOU DONE YOU IDIOTIC BRAT!” Sullivan yelled as he slowly wobbled until he passed out, falling into the crowd of zombies. As the zombies tear Sullivan to shreds devouring him Mischa realizes the zombies aren’t calm anymore. “Run!” She yells to Liam as she helps him up.

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They run out into a medium size field where Mischa climbs onto a tree branch pulling Liam up with her. “Liam hold this tree and don’t let go” Mischa tells him. Liam grabs the tree with his remaining arm. “We’re ok here, the zombies can’t look up” Misha tells him. “MISCHA!” Liam yells as she suddenly slips off the tree. He watches as the zombie’s crowd her. He turns his head and cries as he listens to her screams and the sound of flesh being torn. The screams stop but he doesn’t look, continuing to cry. Liam waits for the zombies to leave then tears some of his shirt wrapping it around his broken arm. He looks at Mischa’s body and notices something in what’s left of her corpse's hand.

Liam picks up the object “a pocket knife” he says with a weary and sorrowful tone. He hugs the knife with tears then carries on through the woods. He climbs trees to take naps, avoid zombies, and eat berries he found. Soon enough his arm had healed mostly. It’s been two weeks since Liam left the circus. “HELLO?!” “IS ANYONE HERE?!” He yells trying to find some other human. Am I all alone? He thinks to himself while walking. He ended up in a city before nightfall stopping at the nearest hotel. Since the zombie’s can’t get up the stairs he goes to the top floor to sleep. He lays down weary and starving due to lack of food. He falls asleep till the morning then wakes up to continue walking.

Liam smells something off and walks towards it. He finds the smell and is petrified. He has come across the remains of a family. Their skinny, malnourished, decaying, bodies limp hugging each other before starving to death. He sits there coming to the realization of what’ll happen if he continues to walk and not find food. Liam starts panicking wondering what his fate would be. Would he be torn to pieces? Turned to a zombie? Starve to death?. He starts having a panic attack as a zombie creeps up behind him and he passes out.