All of them are forming a circle as they sit either on chairs, on furniture, or as Artur, on the floor, with his legs crossing in a meditation pose. Charly, he looks at the people, and he decides it is the moment to tell them about his and Charlotte lifestyle at the base where they lived role-playing as Vikings.


    "The thing "Duel" is known as a fight between a Viking and another Viking. We mostly do that because of sportsmanship, or because of the rivalry."


    "One time we hosted because of a fight between a made marriage. Two guys fighting over a girl. It was brutal, but I at least won the bet." says Charlotte to the people from the circle. "The bet consisted into three cooked pigs."


    "The best meal we''ve had since the beginning from the apocalypse." says Charly to the people.


    "You guys really enjoy this life?" asks Sigurd feeling a bit worried of the twins.


    "Yes." says Charly and Charlotte at the same time.


    "How?" asks Edla. "You two really like to fight zombies with a smile? They are also people."


    "They were." corrects Charly. "Now they are lost souls. We have the mission to send them back to Valhalla."


    "You people might call it role-play." says Charlotte. "Or game. Or any other thing. But we call it pause from this thing."


    "Sure." says Artur. "I get what you say it here. This apocalypse is really making us forget what was real life before all of this. Back then, we thought our lives would be bad. But in reality, the life we''ve had was actually great compared to the one we have now."


    "Back then I was a security guard." says Sigurd. "I had action and lots of stress. But it was nothing compared to this one."


    "Back then I was a zoologist." says Edla to the group.


    "Cool." says Charlotte to Edla. "I also dreamed to be a zoologist, but I and with my brother have decided to remain in the family business as History Teachers at High school."


    Nobody seems surprised by this information. They believe this thing without any hesitation. The fact that these two used to be teachers at high school at the history subject is a great thing that can help them on a situation like this in terms of fighting and surviving.


    "We used to deal with students who were not behaving accordingly to the class." says Charlotte. "One time I had a student who had a boner the whole class while he was doing eye contact to me as he presented his project."


    Everyone, besides Charly, grossed out by the thing Charlotte casually dropped to this conversation.


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    "Don''t you lie." says Charly to the Sigurd and Artur. "We all had moments like these when we were young."


    "Right." says Artur feeling a bit ashamed to admit, but Charly is right, every man has gone through this in the school life or anywhere else.


    "Was that kid having a crush on you?" asks Edla feeling curious about this.


    "I don''t think so." say Charlotte. "That student was in a relationship with the head of the class. Hope they are fine now."


    "They sure are fine." says Charly to his twin sister trying to make her feel better. "That kid is smart as Hell. He probably is right now outside this country, navigating the seas with a small boat with the Head of the class of your school."


    "You two were in different schools?" asks Artur.


    "Oh, yes." says Charlotte. "We worked in different high school. They were not far from each other, so we would occasionally see each other on our breaks at the Park or at the nearest coffee shop."


    "These were the hard days." says Charly. "Teaching ignorant people about the history, and filling papers until at the eleven night."


    "At least the paid was good."


    "That''s true." say Charly to his sister.


    "I-I have to go to the toilet." says Ebba leaving her seat, and going to the door that leads to the bathroom.


    "Hey, sis." says Edla about to raise from her seat.


    "Don''t worry, sister. I can handle this." says Ebba with a smile.


    After a few seconds, Ebba goes at the bathroom stalls, letting Edla remain in the circle of friends and discussing the things they have done in the past. As the people discuss about their past lives and not checking on the shelves, Ebba snatches a pregnancy test and a simple box cutter that was put on the shelf.


    Ebba walks a few steps to the bathroom stalls, all by herself. To get there, she walks through the break room, where the two co-workers of the store used to take a twenty-minute break at every one to two hours of work, drink coffee, do small talk or just relax on their phones or at their computers. As Ebba entered the staff breaking room, she observes there a body of what used to be a human, the body seems to be killed, but by himself because of the cuts at the wrists with the box cutter he holds on the other hand. Ebba also notices the corpse has a hole on the head, at the zone where is the brain placed.


    She looks at the pregnancy test, and thought to herself.


    "Should I really do this? I mean… I know raising a baby into this world is bad news on movies and books, but… Can the Military actually help us deliver a baby in this situation?" she takes a look at the box cutter she holds, then she looks at the corpse of that man.


    Then with her eyes, she notices a small paper note on the floor, next to the left leg of that corpse who is sitting on the couch. Ebba puts the pregnancy test and the boxcutter to the desk of where are two computers placed and covered on blood who has become already hard to clean it up. She bends over to that note, took, and proceed to read the Swedish note.


    "I am sorry, Carla. I was not able to resist the sixth day without you. The lost of you and my unborn child was too much for me. I cannot live without you two. Today I will be killing myself. And nothing can stop me."


    Ebba flips the page to the other side, and on that page is a small photo with a woman that looks really beautiful. A normal Swedish woman in her 30s with long blonde hair, green eyes and a face that could make even a photo-model feeling upset of natural beauty.


    As the girl looked at the photography, and at the corpse, she realized the thing she was about to do earlier. So Ebba, decides to put the note on the couch, and says a faint "Thank you" to the corpse of the murdered human who was either the co-worker of this business or the Boss. Ebba goes back to the circle of her friends, letting the boxcutter and the pregnancy test in that room.