Beast Hunters Omnibus II by Tom Harem

Author:Tom Harem [Harem, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter XIII

We got in the jeep. This time Elisa sat next to Maggie and Vic by my side. We were forced to use the white napkins, where the men of the former city had wrapped the fruit, to clean what we could from the blood that had seeped through the seats to the ground and to the back of the jeep.

"Your brother is just like you were when you were his age," Vic said it and laughed.

"But I grew up and I don't think he's going to do it," I told her as I started the engine.

Elisa helped Maggie take off her glove. There were no blisters even though the bruises she had from the last time were in living flesh. Elisa breathed on them. I had never seen her have such a tender attitude. It was like I was watching a legacy passing or even as if Elisa was accepting Maggie as her protégé.

"Thank you! You may have a hard temper, but, without you, I wouldn't have gotten this far." Maggie said to her.

Elisa laughed.

I drove until we got to the house where I grew up. Along the way, we crossed by a few people who had hidden behind the sidewalls around the corner, peeping and watching the battle. Most of them were young people who cheered us as soon as we drove past them. It always felt good to be so well received and have our efforts appreciated. It filled my heart with a warm embrace when I felt that what I did had an impact on other people's lives. That I was not only saving them but perhaps giving them the idea of wanting to follow my footsteps in the future. The boy I met in my second beast, these boys now, and even the girls next to them, could one day save me, when I can no longer walk without a walker, and have white sideburns up to my cheeks and wrinkles. Actually, I had never thought about my future. Even the ideas I once had seemed to have vanished now. For the first time, I was putting into play the idea that one day it would be necessary to sacrifice myself for the girls or for the hopeful idea of a better world. Even the idea of being arrested crossed my mind. A stream of multiple ideas that sailed through my mind and dispersed as fast as a puff on a summer's day.

"Are you coming?" Vic asked me outside the window, seeing me still seated even though I had parked the jeep in front of the house, and they were already out.

"Yeah, yeah, I got distracted for a few seconds." I said, "Let's go."

As soon as we left, I took a deep breath and looked at the two floors of the villa. All the streets in that area, from the parallel ones to the perpendicular ones, were occupied by single-floor and two-floor villas, some with swimming pools and gardens and others with only one of the two.

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