Behold: Humanity!: Ashes, Ashes by Ralts Bloodthorne

Behold: Humanity!: Ashes, Ashes by Ralts Bloodthorne

Author:Ralts Bloodthorne [Bloodthorne, Ralts]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-30T22:00:00+00:00


Chapter Twenty-Three

Huddled down with the babies, her face turned toward the firewall, her upper body shifted so that it was between the outside and the babies, Aunt Fenn shrieked when the white light seemed to fill the air, almost like it was streaming through the firewall. Nee and the unnamed baby took the opportunity to bite her arm, the baby just gumming and gnawing, Nee sinking her little teeth deep into Fenn's arm. There was a loud explosion, a sharp crack like a glass pane meters thick breaking in half on a cold winter's day, with another flash of white light. Then red light.

The car suddenly rocked up on the shocks, tilting slightly.

It wasn't a noise. It was a pressure that squeezed, combined with heat that made her pant and slicked her fur with sweat that ran down her face. The car slammed back down with the squeak of overstressed shocks, then rocked slightly.

"STAY IN THE CAR!" Dambree yelled.

Aunt Fenn hold the babies closer, the bite from Nee no longer hurting. The taste of blood had made Nee close her eyes, made her jaw relax, as her feral little brain released endorphins.

Fenn squeezed her eyes shut.

Don't cry! she heard her niece yell at her in her memories. Then the deadpan voice, leeched of all emotion. Let it turn to something else.

Part of her wanted to start screaming. Part of her brain kept trying to show her all the memories. The squelching sound of the sharp metal rod popping the male's eyeball as Dambree jammed it into his eye socket. The crunch of bone under the sound of the can hitting the square base the rod was attached to. The dead look on her niece's face, as if she was merely hammering a nail into a board. The way she had gone into the house alone, covered the bodies, and came out as if she had merely gone upstairs to check on a sleeping sibling.

The dead expression on the girl's face since the sirens went off.

She felt like she had failed. Not only her poor niece, who had been trapped on the surface during the long war, but her sister, dead since the initial invasion. The baby nuzzled her and she shifted to keep it from biting her chest.

There was words, painful sobbing gagging words.

THWACK!

She could hear something burning, smell burning synthetics and scorched metal and the odd tang of ozone, light a computer that was dying.

More words.

Fenn thought it sounded like someone begging.

THWACK!

"There's one crawling into the field!" Tru yelled out.

"Get back on the floor," Dambree's voice was hard.

Long seconds passed.

THWACK!

Fenn could hear footsteps and cringed.

She didn't know if she was afraid one of those people with the bruised looking eyes were coming up to the car.

Or if she was afraid of Dambree.

The car buzzed a few times, then clicked, then started pinging.

There was a thump at the back.

"If you have to get out and pee, do it now," Dambree said. "We need to charge and get moving."

"I have to pee," Meglee said.



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