[Her skin crawls and she forces herself to take her finger off the triggers before she presses it without thinking. Why isn't the cat running?]

You couldn't if you tried.

[She's used to zombies. They don't scare her. Zombies are a fact of life and they don't really become a threat until they're in a mob. People are the real threat. They're capable of thinking and holding grudges and being creative.

If this zombie can think like a human for some reason, that makes him more dangerous, not less.]

Different how? Because you can hold a conversation? Are all zombies like this where you're from?