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or on the far side of the Saltwind and out of site. Something had clearly gone horribly wrong, but what?
    As we got near, the guys in the water heard us or our engines and started to wave frantically at us. John started to swim towards us and when we got to him we dragged him on board. Don’t go on the boat; don’t go on the boat he kept repeating over and over again. He was soaked and freezing, who knows how long they’d all been in the water. We approached close enough for us to haul the rest of the guys on board safely. Amy started to tell us what was happening.
    David was trapped in the Saltwind’s cabin area with Ken and Margaret. Apparently young Kathy had turned! Nobody knew how or when, but Liz and Alan had been hiding it and protecting her by saying that she was unwell and sleeping. When we all actually thought about it, no one had seen her for days now. It had all come to light when it came to their turn to go through the rubbish chute on the Somerset. They had insisted on going last and Amy had realised there was something seriously wrong when she had seen Alan and Liz desperately trying to get Kathy aboard the Saltwind without any one seeing the state that she was in.
    They had all been hiding under a tarp similar to us as they distanced themselves from the Somerset. When they had lifted the tarp when David had told them they were a safe distance away, Liz had attacked Alan, she was biting him, tearing at his flesh, consuming him! Little Kathy had joined in too, happily chewing on her father’s leg. Alan had been screaming in pain, but not wanting to harm his family, was trying to get them off without much force. Amy had been the first to react by grabbing a boat hook that was used for raising the anchor. She was about to start using it to hook Liz and try to pull her off Alan, but he had started shouting at her to stop, he was still desperately trying to protect his family, despite the fact that they were consuming him alive!
    Margaret and Ken had been at the front of the boat, so had been able to get into the cab area with David.
    Liz and Kathy had eventually started to turn on the rest of the guys still in the hold area. Amy had started to fend them off best she could with the boat hook, but Alan had started to attack her too, despite not turning yet. David had come out of the cab and shot Liz through the head, “killing” her instantly. Alan had Kathy behind him and had managed to wrestle the boat hook off Amy and was starting to attack her and the others with the hook and all the time little Kathy continued to chew on his leg. They had all had to jump into the water to get away from him, Amy had thrown the life ring over board to help the children and they had all managed to find a decent hold on the side of the boat.
    This had been almost an hour ago. David, Margaret and Ken were locked in the cab area and had continued slowly to the rendezvous point, fortunately they hadn’t been too far away from it and the guys in the water had managed to hang on.
    Amy said that she had shouted to David to shoot Alan and Kathy several times, but Alan had been shielding his daughter and was still alive and conscious and David couldn’t bring himself to kill another human being.
    Eventually it had gone quite aboard and Alan had stopped trying to smash his way into the cab with the boat hook and was now huddled under the tarp they thought with little Kathy. And that it how it was when we’d met up with them.
    I couldn’t understand how young Kathy had gone unnoticed through quarantine. Had it been because she was so young and only just started to communicate anyway? Did the virus take longer to effect the very young? Had she been bitten or become infected whilst below decks on the Somerset? Had she been a carrier all along and something had triggered her to change? Maybe her body had been fighting it, but when she’d weakened from lack of food and water, it had taken hold? Who was I to Guess, I was a