Kenopsia - Chapter 31: Chapter 31

I watch another fire blaze.
Hands still shaking from the tormenting thoughts of animals and husks.
Many animals won't eat a human corpse, and much less one that smells of disease for even us.... But they'd try to keep themselves safe it attacked.... But animals are much quieter and avoid humans.... And our bodies are different, that bird might have been a rare case, cross species contamination is unlikely.
"But it has already been a year since the start of this mess...." I said, grabbing my head and screaming in anger.
I passed my hand in my hair and I crouched next to another body and lit their T-shirt, probably cotton since it was burning easily and fast.
"At least the rot smell might get less now that they bodies will be burnt." I said, stepping away, even if I had gotten use to the stench... If I hadn't been lazy with burning bodies I would have never been met with that bird.... God that's scary.
I unfolded the map, some parts of the town I knew but damn so much it unknown to me still... It feels almost impossible to explore all but I have all the time in the world.
I was still around the soccer stadium, it was near there that most husks got killed, from my school visit too the boys and the meeting with my father, the stench was the worst here so it was a while too clean up the mess as the corpses needed to be moved, I will not risk lighting a building on fire, the whole town could burn down since nothing is there to stop a house fire.
I walked up north, following the simplified street map to the church.
I folded the map and stepped inside.
I pulled the beanie off my head and stuffed it in my pocket, I am not religious but some taught things stick.
"Seems like your god couldn't save you." I told the one moving husk, there were a few others but they were already mush in clothes, it was hot in here so they rotted fast after being killed.
I lifted a leg and shoved them back with my foot, a nun outfit on the husk.
"Let you soul find peace from its undead torment." I muttered, picking a bible up from one of the pews and and swung my arm.
It was a thick book, hitting through the weaker side of the skull and sending the corpse down on the ground, I stomped in the rest of its head.
Silence.
Even the husks brought some noise to this abnormally silent world, I almost missed their groans and moans to fill the weighing silence, so loud in my ears that I felt like I went deaf.
I sat in a pew, flipping through the bloody bibles pages absentmindedly, stopping on Genesis, the great flood that lasted forty days and nights and only a select few lived.
"Humans could never tell if you existed you know?" I asked no one. "It was one thing that we'd go to war over in the before husky-times... Wars over who's view was right because they called you a different name with a slight variation on your stories of genocide and aide.... Am I a bad person to wish for those times back?"
Silence.
"Seriously?" I smirked, crooked and heavy. "Couldn't you choose another way to end the world? You of all.... Should know humans are stubborn.... They fight... Even if they have no reason too... They fight to continue suffering because that would mean they get to breathe for another minute.... You left those alive behind in a wasteland of the world..."
I sighed, pressing my face between the pages of the bible I still held.
"If you don't exist so be it but someone must have an answer to what happened.... Someone somewhere... Many continents away.... Fighting to live and someone I never have the chance off meeting.... That someone must know how to stop this..... Someone.... Anyone.... Please.... I beg of you.... Save us..."