Extermination

"Strange city...?" Simian walked down the streets, looking around as she advanced, "I thought Tetris said 'e'd meet me here..." Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a small movement and stopped. "Allo?" She asked to no one in preticular, "Anyone there-"1

"Oo're you?" Asked a kid, a couple years younger than her as he dropped down from a fire escape above, "Wot's your name!!?"2

"Me?" Simian looked at him happily, "My name's Simian. And you are?"3

"Rhys Barton." He said, glaring at her, "Why're ya 'ere in MY town?"4

"You're town?" Simian smiled again, "Little boy, this town isn't yours. it belong to plenty of people, it-"5

"No' any longeh'." He said, pulling his hat farther over his face, "there ain't been many people evah' since da accident."6

"Wha--? Accident?" Simian asked, "my my, wot's that?"7

"Wh'dya wanna know, guvnor?" Simian's eye twitched and she bent down looking face-to-face with Rhys.8

"Listen," She said, "I've got some 'portant business to take care of, and i'd be much obliged if ya' told me all ye know." Rhys paused a moment and pushed his hat back up,9

"Roight. Well, the accident...i dun relly know too much 'bout it myself. Y'see, there we were one day, jus' a normal day. An' the sky got all dark. Then people, people stahted disappearing. One by one, and wen 'dey all come back 'round, they were like devils! 'Dey'd tryy an kill ya, and you couldn't kill dem!"10

"Sounds familiar." Simian said, looking at the sky. Rhys flinched a bit at the thought,11

"naw, you ain't never seen devils like dem! Crawlin' all ovah da city..."12

"You'de be surprised if you saw wot crawled around my 'ome on a daily basis." Simian said, chewing on a toothpick, "Anyway, i'm 'ere to exterminate 'em. 'S my job." She looked at him and grinned, "Y'see, kid, i just cleared out a whole warehouse of your "devils." they're zombies, the livin' dead." 13

"L-livin' dead?" Rhys asked, his eyes widening, 14

"Yeah," Simian said, "I've had, hehe, a couple "acquaintances" with 'em before." She pointed to her neck and her left arm,15

"'Bloody 'Hell, woman, yer dead!"16

"Only half dead, kid." Simian said, patting him on the head, "And i'm here to make sure something like that never happens to you."17

"Any way i can help?" He asked anxiously. Simian thought for a moment,18

"Ah!" She said finally, "Got a weapon?"19

"I have a shovel." he said quietly,20

"Perfect."