The Walking Dead: California Chronicles » Places

         Dusk was falling as Barney gunned the engine and the Escalade crept forward. Flicking on the headlights, it appeared one had been damaged by the impact with the chainlink fence, but the engine appeared unaffected and he opened it up a little. 'Let's just get back to LA, okay,' said Delaney. 'You can get on the 5 somewhere round here.'

They took a right at a small cluster of buildings, isolated in the wide open spaces of the state park complex that had held the festival, then came to a gate across the road. The one working headlight illuminated a sign reading: Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge. Beyond it, the dirt track petered out into two muddy ruts in the ground, then nothing. 'Now what?' snapped Delaney. 'Doesn't this stupid thing even have GPS?' Barney stared silently ahead. 'Urggh, useless,' she groaned. 'My iPad has GPS, hang on.' Delaney twisted in her seat to look on the back seat. 'Barney...' she said ominously, craning her neck further to look behind her own seat. 'Barney, where's my fucking pack?' she spun back to glare at the big man, blonde hair whipping round. 'Barney! What the fuck? My iPad was in there! And my IPod! And a bag of weed the size of your stupid fat head!'

Finally he turned to look at her. 'You want to go back for it?'

Delaney slumped back in her seat, folding her arms, fuming. Barney began to back the Escalade to their last turning. Delaney thrust out a hand and snapped on the radio.

... however, despite the similarity of the gangland-style executions, Police Captain Jorge Morelos would not comment on whether the violence at Inglewood Hospital is related to the outbreak of rioting in Lynwood and Compton several miles away. And now, this just in... there are reports of mass hysteria at the Imperial Beach Curfew Breakers festival south of San Diego, where eyewitnesses have described festival-goers in a seeming trance attacking other revellers... These reports are coming to me as we speak, listeners... The small police force at the three-day event have reported multiple incidents of... this can't be- are you sure- multiple incidents of cannibalism... Stay tuned for further updates...

         *Screams 'Delete!' into the empty abyss*