Nadine made a face as she considered the yellow tape in front of her, flicking at it as if to test whether it could actually stop her. There was an unlit cigarette in her other hand, and a teal acrylic fingernail tapped against the filter impatiently. Pursing her lips, she bent at the waist, let her curls hang in the air as she considered sideways the corpse behind the tape.
Probably not a zombie. Probably hadn't been turned into anything, in fact, so he was unlikely to wake up and protest the fact that she was intruding on his personal space. Something had ripped out his throat, but since there'd been enough time for the cops to put up tape, it was probably gone.
Probably.
She tapped impatiently on the filter of her cigarette again, and slid beneath the tape, adjusting her skirt as she stood up straight on the other side. Stepping closer to the corpse, she covered the lower half of her face with the sleeve of her sweater and carefully avoided looking at the wound. She circled the body, heels on concrete sidestepping any blood, until she found what she was looking for:
His pack of cigarettes. And her lighter. Pushing her glasses higher on her nose, she bent down to retrieve the zippo with a sense of triumph.
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