Black Parade by Jacqueline Druga

Author:Jacqueline Druga [Druga, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

13.

Invasion

Did I tell you I wanted to go home?

I did. I just wanted to go back to Beginnings. Cross-country travel was easier with the use of the trains. I had visitors during my two months with the Society, but I still hated being away from Beginnings.

Joe promised me time off as soon as the summer was over. Okay, I could deal with that.

But, unfortunately, that never happened.

Mid June I was down in Norfolk, Virginia. We had four main hubs where our fishing boats were stationed. Norfolk was one of them.

I got a call.

“We have problems,” was all Callahan said.

She received the call first then called me. I of course placed a call to Joe.

In an attempt to get the incentive we offered, one of our fishing boats went out way beyond where they were supposed to.

It was a Maryland fishing boat.

Good thing they did.

They hurried back, and requested a secure channel for radio communication.

They weren’t spotted, they didn’t think. But they did however spot and counted, thirty-seven ships, positioned and not moving, a hundred and fifteen miles off the coast of the United States.

The ships were all large and of various types. Cruise ships, freight carriers, air craft carriers.

I recall getting that information and feeling that shock wave shoot through my body.

When I called Joe the first words I spoke were, “George may have been right.”

I informed him what was going on and Joe then told me to get a hold of our other hubs to find our boats the furthest out and send them out further., The satellite scan in Beginnings didn’t pick up the ocean, so we had to rely on old fashion navigation.

Fuck that.

I did send out the boats east into the ocean, and then I began working on the radar on one of the old ships docked at Norfolk.

It worked, but it was useless. I saw a blur; it might as well have been a sea monster.

Within five hours our ships reported I. Ten hours after that, we had the entire eastern seaboard scanned.

Like first reported, the ships were sitting there. Just sitting there. Anchored. Waiting.

When the final count came in, it was frightening.

Ninety-eight ships formed a wall from north to south.

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