Constant Danger (Book 2): Defeat The Anarchy by Westfield Ryan

Author:Westfield, Ryan [Westfield, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Survival | Thriller
Published: 2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

13

Meg

Meg was trudging alone through the deep snow.

The sky hung low overhead. It was intensely gray. She’d always hated those clouds, the ones that seemed to be just above you all the time, as if they were waiting for a chance to come down and smother you.

It was one of the things she’d loved about New Mexico, with the sky that certain shade of blue. The sky there always seemed to be so much higher. She’d never looked it up, why the sky seemed higher or lower in one place compared to another.

She’d always assumed it had something to do with the elevation, since many places in New Mexico were over six thousand feet and most of Massachusetts was more or less at sea level. The Berkshires, of course, at a couple thousand feet, were the notable exception.

But if it had been merely an effect of the altitude, wouldn’t the sky have seemed lower in New Mexico at high elevation, rather than the other way around?

She’d never mentioned her observation to anyone else, for fear that it was something so obvious that she’d seem like a fool for asking about it.

And for some reason, she’d never looked it up. Maybe at this point in her life she enjoyed having some things remain little mysteries.

Out in New Mexico, she’d felt free, as if things were possible, as if she could do anything she wanted to. And in Massachusetts? When she’d returned, she’d seen that low sky and she’d felt the sinking feeling of intense and familiar depression, with the possibilities in her life seeming to shrink down to the point where it seemed as if nothing at all would ever be possible ever again.

Of course, in a strange way, when the EMP had hit and life had immediately become intensely difficult, Meg had left many of those familiar feelings of depression behind. She hadn’t had time to worry about whether things were possible or not. She hadn’t had time to focus on her inner feelings, or whether or not she was depressed.

Once the EMP had hit, it had almost immediately become a constant battle to survive, a constant battle between life and death, with her on the frontline, down in the trenches, with the shells exploding around her, shrapnel flying at her from all sides.

And now? Now that she was exhausted, stomping through deep snow, with the wind eating at her bones, there was no time for depression. It didn’t even cross her mind.

Sure, the sky seemed ominous. It was still gray and dark. And still hung down oppressively.

But she almost felt better about it all. After all, she was doing something. She was taking action. She was fighting against that sky, against the world around her.

And she was going to beat it.

Sure, she hadn’t slept in who knew how long. Sure, there was that ever present edge of hunger. Sure, she was freezing, only keeping warm by maintaining her constant ever-fatiguing march.

Sure, things weren’t exactly looking up.

But she was fighting. She was pushing on.

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