Day 10

I finally found a place which is safe enough. I.e. as safe as I'm gonna get.

My new plan consists of getting to the police station in town before trying to get to the SAS camp. It's probably just as quick to get to the camp as the station from where I am, but its a lot of open areas with very little safe places. I'd rather be prepared. Even a riot shield would be awesome...

I suppose I should enlighten people over my miraculous escape a bit further My fall two stories (well one and a half as I lowered myself down a bit) sprained my ankle really bad. Adrenaline helped me run when I needed, but it's only supposed to be temporary. The more I run the worse it gets. Really I need two or three days rest before using it properly, but I can't see that happening. It's another reason I'm heading for the station, I can rest however much I want throughout in any open house.

Good news however. I found a very nice set of golf clubs which I will be taking, birthday wrapped. Found the receipt also, at about £2grand I don't think they'll break on me easy.

I slept badly from Day 8-9 my leg hurt seriously. I'm refusing to take pills just because I want to be fully alert whatever happens but I'm really struggling.
I'm probably only a mile or so from my last safe house but I've been back and forth being chased. I'm seriously wound up about that.

You may wonder what exactly I have got upto to get only a mile from where I was in basically 2 days. Simply: it takes a really really long time to move from house to house safely, especially with so many Rani's out there. You have to move and wait, move and wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, move! Yesterday I actually only covered 10 or so houses but it was probably the most tiring of my days so far, my injury combining with the fear of not only the Rani's but of people.
Today I covered more distance because there seemed to be less activity on the dead front. They must have been distracted by something but because of the reduced fear I couldn't make it so far. I've actually been in this house a number of hours, just wasting my day; wasting a really good chance to make it there safely...

I'm going to talk about previous days. There's not much new to talk about here, it's all covered in the first few days, so I may as well get two birds with one stone eh? I've been thinking about it as well. I really think the first days need to be fully documented so I'm going to try and make an account of all the time I remember on those days. It's going to take some time to do, so please bare with me on it.

Day 1
When I got to the road I saw chaos; traffic full both in and out of the city. I guess families were trying to get to their children and lovers as well as escape. This just meant their deaths. The roads are just as blocked now, just there are no people in the cars. It seems that something big happened somewhere by the bridge so people were stuck, and all the way to Locks Garage something happened there from what I could get on the AM radios.
People actually screamed at me when I came over the hedges, probably as I had scratched my face up quite a bit. At this point though I still hadn't heard the news, and in a way I'm glad I hadn't. Some people actually got out of their cars with sledgehammers and walked towards me. They would have killed me if I hadn't spoken to them. They were surprized by my "what are you doing?" but then most carried on regardless. Again in hindsight they probably thought the small cuts on my face were me being infected. But the fact that some didn't move meant I had a path to run through; I took it, running through gaps between cars and jumping over the brook. I headed into Newton Farm looking for a place to hide. I knew of a few there.

Luckily one still existed, a crappy little platform halfway up a tree, now covered in branches and, annoyingly, a prickly bush. But still it completely obscured me from the Rani's over the next day.
Luckily as well the weather would be warm... Else I would have frozen there...
But back to the day. I saw increasing amounts of wandering people, looking slightly dazed and worried. I dozed off, with the first real burst of adrenaline I've had in a while wearing off. After a couple of hours I awoke to screaming; remaining very still I slowly turned my head to see a woman being chased by a group of the wanderers. It seems Rani's only have blood on them after they are attacked to convert, or are attacking others. The initial infections looked pseudo normal, so strange to think of it now, considering none look like that...
I turned just in time to see her caught. I was frozen in fear as I watched her die. I worry she knew I was there and that's why she was running my way; did I fail her?
As the last parts of her life faded I saw flickers in the windows of other viewers of this horror and down the street came a dog, so strange to see it, a golden retriever blacked with drying blood. It launched at them to attack them and they all moved in to attack it. It took a long time to subdue it, enough for the former screaming woman to stand and take her place too. It took longer for me to realise that the dog had been infected too. Maybe from protecting it's owner I dunno. But for some reason it didn't associate itself with the Rani's who never attack each other. Maybe it's to do with the sight thing... I'm just speculating. Whatever the reason it's a very slight plus; it means I won't always be first on the menu.

The pain on my leg is easing, so I'm signing off, can't miss another opportunity to sleep. Barricaded safely, I hope...

I hope you make another day