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| Zombie students walked alongside humans on Wednesday at Utah State University during a short truce between the two sides in the zombie war. |
Zombies and humans converged outside Luke’s Café on the Utah State University campus today.
With the zombie horde temporarily neutralized, both humans and zombies walked together to bring the zombie apocalypse to the attention of the campus' student body.
“Our goal is to raise awareness of zombies and general alertness,” said Steven Collins, a human general.
As both humans and zombies amassed, human survivors were allowed a brief moment to reunite with former comrades who had succumb to the zombie plague.
“We were a team, we were a threesome, and then she got turned,” said Ivie Van Lent, a human survivor. “It’s very upsetting. We were a team and now she’s attacking me. It’s heartbreaking, and now we have to kill her.”
Human Dallin Tinkham used the zombies' neutralized state to his advantage.
“I painted myself in zombie blood so they would think I was one of them,” Tinkham said, his clothes reeking with the gut-wrenching stench of the undead. “It’s a great way to get inside their minds and take them down from inside.”
As the walk began, humans stood tall as the zombies shuffled, stumbled and groped their way to the Taggart Student Center. A low hymn-like song was sung before the zombies and humans entered the TSC.
Students stopped and stared as the moans of the zombies filled the halls of the building. As the humans and zombies made their way upstairs, one zombie left rotting fingers behind as he crawled his way to the second floor.
Once on the second floor, the stench of zombie corpse was overwhelming. One zombie tapped at the glass outside the Marketplace Grill, drool rolling down her chin.
Once the zombies and humans made it outside, the humans were dismissed. According to zombie Alex Meadows, the brief uniting of humans and zombies would not stop the epidemic.
“After the walk, it’s going to get even worse,” Meadows said as he stood among the human participants.
But according to Tinkham the walk only empowered humans’ to struggle for survival.
“We are not going down without a fight,” Tinkham said.
UnDeadline reporters Dominic Bohne, Sierra Copeland, Jamie Keyes, Jaimie Son, and Katie Larsen contributed to this report.
