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Ever since leaving the lycan infested village, the radio pinned to Chris' broad chest had been sputtering static and intermingled clicks. He had paused beneath a looming oak tree to fiddle with the dials and input but to no avail.
"Alpha team, do you copy? I repeat, Alpha team, do you copy?”
“Piece of shit” Chris seethed between grit teeth. Military training had taught him that isolation was the quickest way to get yourself killed. Chris could handle the Lycan but he knew larger and more fearsome hunters stalked these doll lined forested canopies.
Ducking beneath a low hanging branch, the bead in his ear clicked to life and warbled with stretched voices. Layered over one another it was difficult to determine who was on the other end of the line. Chris jammed a his index finger against the bead and fixed his gaze on the carpet of snow at his boots, tracing a shape that jutted rocklike in the earth.
“Reeeeed-” His radio yapped, tone desperate despite its warped channel. “Redfield... US- HELP... overrun... DEAD- KENNEDY... too late.”
Chris swallowed thickly as a shiver that was not from the cold ran down his spine. Beneath a scattering of leaves by his right boot, a barely distinct logo caught his eye.
The flack vest was a frozen stone as Chris fell to his knees and scratched frantically at its outline, finding an arm and head. The body was so cold against his gloved hands that it had to have been here for days, weeks even.
Chris rose to his feet in panic and turn this way and that, desperately searching for help in this desolate waste. A doll that had waved solemnly in the breeze three feet away was not a doll at all. The severed arm clawlike in rigor mortis and adorned with a familiar watch that was awarded to all recruits upon graduation.
Still the radio screeched as the forest of bodies became clear through the misted trees. Their faces frozen in terror as they stared at Chris accusingly.
“LET... US... DIE- WHERE? HELP. ALPHA TEAM? DO YOU COPY? CHRIS. HELP!”