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| Dr. Jividen |
"You're really going to like Dr.Jividen" Daniel said as his long legs quickly negotiating the maze. "Well this is where I go and leave you two to secret settlement business." He gave me a big hug and handed me the egg basket.
I knocked on the door. I knocked again and waited. I knocked and impatiently paced back and forth. The hall was deserted, the place smelled like bleach. It was so desolate. Daniel was long gone and I was lost. I had no further orders after, 'find Jividen' -- Finally I just opened the door.
"Yup just packing" she said when I stepped inside. She didn't turn to look at me. On a long broad aluminum table, the kind used in morgues, was a black nylon cloth outfitted to carry knives. A pretty brunette in a white lab coat, with long spiral curls of hair going down her back, was pulling knives out of a target at the end of the lab and returning them to her carrier. The target was placed between a rack of elk horns. Jars and samples were neatly labelled and arranged in the lab I noticed and nothing too unusual was out of place besides the bizarre 'knife range' Dr. Jividen had erected in her lab.
"The other equipment I sent on ahead" she explained. "I don't let anyone else carry these." She rolled up her knives into a bundle and secured it by tying it shut.
Her face was expressionless and unperturbed in any way. There was no fake smile and gracious remarks that so many women greet each other with. Daniel was right, I would like Jividen - possibly. She wasn't a phoney.
"Ever gone zombie hunting 5?" She asked and I wasn't sure if she was serious or joking.
"No" I said finally, "usually they're hunting me." She laughed. It was disconcerting - was that funny?
"Yes, well, we'll need to hunt down a few zombies while I'm at Fort Stevens. I just need a runner though. I can handle the on sight dissection as long as I'm undisturbed. For some reason Stevens just didn't send the samples directly. Very odd how squeamish some people are in this day and age."
"And five" she said throwing in a few small instruments into her case that all looked sharp, "I've been looking for a few missing bones for the skeleton I'm putting together. I call him...well, he doesn't have a name yet...but if you know of any good 'well and gone' corpses or bones that maybe the dogs haven't totally chewed through I would appreciate them for my collection, mostly vertebrae I'm short of, okay then shall we go?"
Dr. Jividen and her assortment of knives and bag led the way back down the hall. We had the VIP treatment home and in the back of the truck I was able to stretch my legs out and dose. Zombie hunting? What could go wrong. I awoke with a start.
