it sparks another memory, but not a flashback like before, more of a reminder than anything. A feeling of familiarity. He remembers now that, after being bitten, he woke up in a similar looking store. Maybe a day or two ago.

It was looted and trashed, just like this one but it wasn’t a shoe store, it was a chemist. For some reason the fact that his laces were untied was important then, as if connected to some other event, and this was the first thing he fixed when he woke, but he remembers feeling like crap. As if he had the worst hangover in history.

He also remembers that this was the first time he’d looked at himself in the mirror and realised something wasn’t right. The wound on his neck was fresher at that stage and he had a limp from