He was coughing again. More signs of injury. A liability as it tried to keep the infected from reaching it. And the human had denied that it was hurt. This was not true.

When they reached the cubicles, it slowed to let the human catch up, scanning the space beyond them.There were infected here, and they would be lured in by the coughing. It could smell them. See wavering heads turn, over the tops of the low walls.

And there was something rustling in the distance. It couldn't tell if the noise was on a level above them.