Seeds Chapter 4 Page 30

and he quickly runs back towards them. Picking one up, he hoists it up onto his shoulder and grabs the fourth by the ankle, repeating the process as before. As he passes the entrance to the stairs however a drone notices him and lets out a scream.

He reacts quickly as the first drones charge up the steps and tosses the body from his shoulder down the stairs. It rolls and they stumble, giving him just enough time to draw his rifle and begin firing at the gang of savages charging towards him. The first drones fall just as they are about to bite into the body rolling towards them, their added mass forming a barrier which other drones stumble over as they climb the narrow stairway. He fills in a gap in the barricade to the side with a well-placed shot to the head of a drone, then another, then another.