Before The Cure (Book 2): The Infected by Gould Deirdre

Author:Gould, Deirdre [Gould, Deirdre]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2020-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

18

The morning was rainy and thick with fog. Shay tried to persuade them to stay another day until the weather cleared, but Elijah refused for them, telling her a little rain would make for a cool and easy start to their long hike. When she found she had no more excuses to delay them, she put them each on a bicycle over Elijah’s strenuous objections and watched them roll out of sight. Neil’s pack was very heavy and he had to work hard to balance the bike. It threatened to tip every few seconds.

“What did she put in our bags?” he muttered, feeling tired within the hour.

“Too much. These supplies would be years’ worth of chips in the City. The bikes alone would take me three months to earn. If I traded my food allotment along with everything else. I know scav teams get their pick of stuff they find but even so… I don’t know how we’ll pay this back, brother.”

“I don’t think we ever do,” grunted Neil, pedaling hard to keep up with Elijah. He was sweating and gasping for air even though the rain made the morning quite cool. “Maybe that’s okay. Maybe we have to stop keeping score now.”

Elijah glanced back over his shoulder at Neil. “You’re working too hard. We should take a break, let you catch your breath. Hang on, I saw a sign for a park a few miles ahead. We’ll take a break there.”

“I’m okay. Should keep going,” heaved Neil.

“Not until you’ve regained some muscle,” said Elijah. “Your body’s only just stopped eating itself. It’s gonna take some time to recover. This isn’t the same as the walking was. It’s a lot more weight, a lot more balance, it’s going to take some practice. You push it too hard and you’ll get an injury. You don’t want to be laid up for weeks. We have work to do before the snow and not much time to do it. We take a rest when I say, got it?”

His tone was the same as it had been in the camp. He’d be stubborn if Neil resisted and the truth was, Neil was feeling shaky and weak already.

“Okay,” he agreed and concentrated on keeping the bike upright until they could get to the park.

They sat under the canopy of a bus stop on the edge of a fenced-in park. It took Neil several minutes and a bottle of water before his legs stopped twitching uncomfortably. “This is going to take forever. I’d go faster if we were walking.”

Elijah shook his head. “You only think that because of the fog. You can’t see how far we’ve already gone. It’s going to be twice what we did in the past few days by the time we stop for the night. Besides, the bike is taking the weight from your pack. It’s harder to keep it upright, but not as hard as carrying it on your back. I— didn’t fill your pack all the way when we left the camp.

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