Anarchy by Peter Meredith

Author:Peter Meredith [Meredith, PETER]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Victoria marveled at Bryce as he leapt from one side of the alley to the other, bounding from wall to wall, and thought: It’s not fair. As far as she knew, the skinny little twerp had done nothing to deserve his transformation. He had no one depending on him; no children, no wife, perhaps not even parents. And yet, he was powerful, while she was a literal beggar in comparison. She, who was in such great need, was nothing and had to beg and scrape and make outrageous demands to force him to help her.

Life was not fair. She had known this and accepted the concept—something that was easy to do when she had always been on the privileged side of life’s teeter-totter. Now her end was falling, and she was filled with a pissy, whining anger over her lot.

Maddy also watched Bryce, though she did it with her breath pent up in her chest. A greater darkness than that of the night surrounded him. Within it he seemed small and diffuse, as if he were leaping out of her life and maybe even out of his own. A part of her needed to see through this darkness, to know what was going to happen to him, but there was no time. The zombies were chasing after Bryce and her escape window was seconds only. There were always more zombies and they couldn’t wait around to be caught again.

She climbed down to the alley floor and hefted Bryce’s staff. Now, it seemed a little lighter than it had, and she gave the air a tentative jab and then swished it around before letting out a grumbly, “Hmm.” It was still too heavy for her liking and had it been a pipe she had just found lying about, she probably would have left it behind. However, it was Bryce’s, and when he caught up, he would be angry if she tossed it aside. If he catches up. Despite the need to get moving she found herself staring after him.

“Come on,” Victoria whispered, giving her shirt a yank and hobbling down the alley toward the street. With her foot cramping badly from having been wedged into an impossibly tight space for so long, running was out of the question just then. She tried skipping to move faster.

Sighing, Maddy watched her for a few seconds before she loped after, catching the blonde quickly. “I’d stop that. You look way too human. Try limping.”

After all Victoria had been through, limping came naturally. The two scurried to the street, where they found nothing new; endless lines of cars crushed in on each other and zombies moaning here and there. The sky to the east had a purple cast to the blackness. It wouldn’t be long before the sun crept up over the horizon, though in the city canyons, full sunrise would take a little longer to attain.

“Which way?” Victoria asked.

Neither direction looked promising and Maddy was sorely tempted to ask Victoria her own thoughts concerning directions.

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