Katie staggered out into the main room and looked around. It was as she suspected. Most of the zombies were women. In the fray, she hadn’t even noticed. Most were wearing neat little matching outfits and expensive shoes. Other zombies were the waiters and kitchen staff.
That meant maids and janitors could still be around. Walking around, studying the bodies, she identified the front desk receptionist and a doorman.
“Shouldn’t be too many left,” Mike was saying.
“Actually, these are mostly brunch guests. There was a meeting here during the first days,” Katie said. “And the lobby and kitchen crew. The maids and the janitors are probably around. ”
Mike looked around, truly seeing the zombies for the first time and what they were wearing. “Oh. Yeah. We killed two janitors in that room and a maid. ”
“But how many were on shift?”
Jenni nodded. “I worked in a hotel. There should be a work schedule up at the front desk!”
She started heading out the door and Mike immediately motioned Ned and Ashley to follow. “Stay with her. ”
Ashley nodded, still looking pale from the battle and Ned swaggered with more confidence than he should have considering the situation.
Katie sighed and looked around. “I’m thinking that the maids may have barricaded themselves into bedrooms like that one zombie that took a header out of the window when we first arrived. ”
Travis stood nearby looking at his slimed up jacket and tossed it away with disgust. “Which means every room we enter could be full of really hungry zombies. ”
“Nothing about this is easy,” Roger said, and kicked a pink Ferragamo high heel across the room.
“Just gotta find them and shoot them in the head,” Shane said from where he was straddling a chair and looking bored.
“Unless they eat your ass first,” Felix grumbled.
Mike patted Felix on the back. “The trick is to shoot them in the head before they get that chance. ”
Bill and Curtis entered the room, followed by a guy named Davey.
They all three looked impressed with the scene.
“Been busy, I see,” Bill said.
“Nothing we can't handle,” Shane retorted. “Despite the lesbos, fatsos, and old people. ”
Everyone chose to ignore him.
Jenni ran back in, waving a clipboard. “Okay, I got the roster. ”
She handed it automatically to Katie though Mike had been reaching for it.
“Okay, gimme a second…” Katie looked around, counting the kitchen staff and the wait staff. She looked at the list. “All the kitchen people are accounted for and so is the wait staff. Both front desk people are here as is the doorman. We are missing four maids…” She flipped a page and studied it for a moment. “And two plumbers. They were called in to look at the showers on the sixth floor. ”
“So the sixth floor is a potential hotspot,” Mike said thoughtfully.
“And the maids could be anywhere,” Travis said with a sigh.
“Six zombies,” Katie said. “And the manager of the hotel. ”
“Not so many compared to this,” Bill pointed out.
“Yeah, but they could be anywhere, upstairs, in closets, under the beds-anywhere,” Travis answered.
Everyone stood in a circle, pondering this.
Jenni looked around, then up at Katie. “Well, it can’t be that hard, can it?”