[This kid's a babbler. Joy. She sifts through all that and latches onto what seems like the actual essence of what he's saying.]

It wasn't like in the movies. For one thing, we'd all seen the movies, and we had the internet. Dead start rising, the first thing you try is the headshot. The second thing you do is blog about what worked and what didn't. Casualties were still high, but society didn't crumble. It just changed.

But this was all before I was born. I only know of the pre-Rising world second-hand, and a lot of it just seems alien to me.