Crisis Event: Gray Dawn by Shows Greg & Womack Zachary

Author:Shows, Greg & Womack, Zachary [Shows, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-02T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Pistol in her hand, Sadie scanned the skyline. The city had returned to silence. Even the smoldering building seemed taciturn and inclined to mourn the death of the city’s final inhabitants.

Sadie didn’t think she could find a human alive who was still living in Youngstown. The dogs had likely made living there impossible for the past few months, and she didn’t believe for a second that the Tall Man and his two children were residents.

She also didn’t believe they’d stuck around once they’d gotten free of the feral dogs.

People didn’t feel inclined to help strangers these days—especially strangers that had pointed guns at them.

It appeared that the dogs that got away weren’t interested in coming back, so she walked the fifty yards up the block to where the long haired guy lay. The dogs had really done a number on him. His face was gone, along with his guts and throat and right arm, though he’d managed to hang on to his matted, blood-soaked hair.

The rest of him was a horror show. His left arm was chewed down to the bone and his fingers were missing. His pants were in tatters and his calves and most of his thighs had been torn away. The only parts of him still intact and undamaged were his feet, which were laced up inside black leather boots.

Sadie’s stomach turned over. She’d seen a lot of dead bodies, but she’d never seen this kind of disfiguration. Most of the bodies she’d seen had been long dead like the guy on the roof, and most of the evidence of feasting animals had been effaced by weathering and insects.

Sadie swallowed a few times and let her stomach settle before she turned back and focused on searching the dead man. The Tall Man had turned all his pockets out and dug into his jacket, but the barking dogs had gotten him into a hurry. He forgot to check the knife holster on the dead man’s hip.

Sadie unsnapped the leather flap and pulled out short red Swiss Army knife with a ring that held a small set of keys. She pocketed the keys and knife and moved on to the pack, which the Tall Man had left beside the curb.

The pack was small. A day-hike pack at best. Not the kind of rig you’d expect if he was carrying all his worldly possessions on him and walking around what was left of America.

The first thing she found in the pasty damp dust was a black, zippered pouch. The pouch was brand new, unlike anything else she’d seen for a long time in this hellhole the long haired man had called “America.” When she unzipped it she saw what she thought was a cell phone. But then she pulled it out of the pouch and saw the gray electronic readout and three buttons.

Then came the fear.

“No,” Sadie said. “No no no no no!” She couldn’t stop staring at the word above the gray readout. It was a word she

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