Catharsis: Green Fields book 8 by Adrienne Lecter

Author:Adrienne Lecter [Lecter, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

I woke up with Nate gently shaking my shoulder, the strength of his grip indicating that it had taken some considerable patience on his part to rouse me. I stupidly blinked into the light of early dawn as it filtered into the building. “Here, got you something to drink,” he told me once he was sure I wasn’t going to doze off again. It came inside a steaming, open thermos, but the smell alone told me that it wasn’t tea. Electrolyte solution, if I wasn’t completely wrong, and judging from the sticky residue it left on my lips, way too sweet for me to drink had I been able to taste it. I didn’t remember packing any electrolyte powder, even less some laced with added sugar—presumably of the non-toxic kind—but my brain wasn’t yet up to discussing that. I drank it down without much thought, waiting for my body to stop aching so I could get up and put it to good use once more. Since that didn’t happen, I had to make do with the cards I was dealt, but what else was new?

Breakfast was a somber affair, beans on bread and crackers getting munched on with some tea or coffee to wash it all down. The harsh morning air did nothing to disband my brain fog, but I did my best to fake alertness as we broke camp and got ready for the day’s march. Nothing had broken through our perimeter at night, but I didn’t miss a few heaps of rags and rotting meat by the side of the now well-trodden path we used to get back out of the forest. Visibility was a little better than yesterday morning, the fog only minimal, but that didn’t mean that the weather was good. There was hardly any sunshine, and the few stray rays that made it through the heavy cloud cover did nothing to warm me up. We kept heading roughly southeast, but had to backtrack and change course twice before midday. Red kept up a rapport with the forward fire teams whenever he wasn’t part of the advance himself, his maps out as he did his best to chart a new path with every obstacle that we hit. And obstacles there were aplenty, including some deliberately detonated bridges and erected barriers swarming with the undead. Nothing looked recently abandoned, but wherever there was some cover, something lurked in the shadows. More than once, he and Nate conferred for a while before a new course was charted, particularly where architectural obstacles were concerned—with surprisingly little resistance from Hamilton. That made me realize that I knew next to nothing about his qualifications except for his lacking moral compass, making me guess that, unlike Nate, he wasn’t so fond of blowing things up or judging if they were still structurally sound enough to be trusted.

Noon came and went without a longer break, until we got close to a small village in the early afternoon. It was pretty much just

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