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He hears the cars coming before he sees them.
It's the same old grind, the same as what he hears every other day, but it still sets his heart pounding with fear. He throws himself in his car. He fangs it.
It's a pack of them, and they're smarter than the usual scavengers. He's driving as fast as he can, but he's boxed in. Cornered. Surrounded. Something explodes, and suddenly his car is flipping through the air, slamming him down with a shriek of collapsing metal.
He wakes up by the powder lakes.
He's gasping for air, shaking, looking around for signs of danger, but there are none. It was just a dream. That was all. Just a dream.
But, part of him thinks, it felt so real.