While Zane did his best to ignore the voices in the back of his head, he couldn't help but overhear the conversation taking place among the Horde Kings. A conversation which was about him. One initiated by none other than Gwen, who had incessantly tried her best to converse with Zane ever since he first stupidly asked a question to the hive mind.
By now the young Horde King who had once been a high school cheerleader prior to the outbreak of the apocalypse and the spread of the undead virus, changed her tactics from trying to directly communicate with Zane, to badmouthing him openly among his "peers."
I just don't understand why big brother doesn't want to speak to any of us? If he didn't want to do so, he shouldn't have opened his mouth in the first place. You agree, don't you Lilith?"