[It's possible she went a little too hard on that line. Of course he didn't mean offense by it. But family is a complicated thing with her. She never knew or wanted to know her biological family and she hates her adopted parents. The only family who's ever mattered was her brother, and he's a whole other kind of complicated that she won't be discussing. The idea of adding more people to the unit she and Shaun have formed, even just theoretical people, is not something she's interested in contemplating.

But zombies and comics. Safer topics to land on.]

I am not a zombie, no, and if I were, it would not be cool. This is a reservoir condition. I'm infected, of course. Everyone in my world is. But it isn't live, and it's no more dangerous than any of my other body fluids. [Which is to say, do not touch, but most people don't go around trying to poke her in the eye anyway.]

Of course there are still comic books. People love a good distraction. Mostly digital or web-based, of course, but they're there. I'm just not personally very interested.