Beyond The Collapse by Kip Nelson

Author:Kip Nelson [Nelson, Kip]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-10-19T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

There had been a brief respite from the rain. For a couple of days it almost seemed as though spring had come early. If it wasn't for the bitter cold, Adam Carlyle and Peter Beach would have believed it. They spent the nights wrapped in their warm clothes, huddled together to share their body heat, and tried to ignore the chattering of their teeth. They had been living in the wilderness for a while now, and although they were not experts, they had managed to carve out a simple existence.

The rain had given them a chance to replenish their water supply, and although it didn't taste as good as what came out of a tap, it still was welcome. The shelter they had built still was holding firm, for the most part, although Adam was afraid that at any point the structure could weaken and collapse upon them. The food they had carried from the city had been depleted a long time ago, but Adam was becoming used to hunting and killing his own food. It was something he never thought would happen, for in his old life he was very much a modern man and only ever bought fish himself.

The days were turning out to be very much the same for the two men. In the morning they would rise, far earlier than Adam was used to doing, and they would breathe in the fresh air. They'd tend to the camp and make sure everything was working properly. Then they would walk off and go to do their morning business somewhere far away. This was perhaps the most degrading thing about living in the forest. When Adam crouched down he always felt guilty, for it had been drilled into him since he was a child that relieving himself in public was wrong.

But there were so many lessons he had to unlearn, for the only laws governing him now were the ones that were made by his own conscience, his own morality. This scared him. He had seen how dangerous human beings could be, and he didn't like to think there was a monster lurking inside him, just waiting to be unleashed in this uncivilized world. Thankfully, Peter was there to keep him grounded. Adam had come to think of him as a younger brother, even though Peter was older than him. Adam had been an only child and often spent time by himself, so it was a change in lifestyle to have someone else there all the time. There were points when his presence grated Adam, and all the younger man wanted to do was have some time to himself, but he was adapting and getting used to the new dynamic.

The most time he got to spend in solitude was when he went out hunting. He actually began cherishing these precious moments when it was just him against nature. When the end of the world happened, Adam felt lost. He felt like he didn't have a place in the new world since so much of his life was tied up with technology and electricity.

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