Angela shakes her head. "Only if there was a direct threat right then. If I had advance warning, I would have time to go to the cops."

She chews on her pen thoughtfully. "I mean, I guess if I was in a situation like what Callisto described, where the police weren't an option and I couldn't run, I might feel that I had to. But ... there's 911 in my world, you know?"

"And the zombie wasn't a person to me. It was just this thing that wanted to hurt me or my friends."