Crush: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (Impact Book 4) by EE Isherwood

Author:EE Isherwood [Isherwood, EE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Isherwood Media
Published: 2023-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Denver, CO

Grace and her companions walked the tracks all the way to the end of the line, which was less than a mile from the railroad repair building where they’d left Logan.

“That’s Union Station,” Asher advised. “Light rail goes out of there.”

“It’s a mess,” Shawn commented.

The building sat behind one corner of the baseball stadium, but it was closer to the path of destruction created by the falling piece of asteroid. Many of the rails were twisted and warped, and several of the passenger carriages had been tossed on their sides or thrown off the tracks completely. A furrow of damage continued into a nearby grouping of five- and ten-story buildings. But the most distinctive feature of the lower downtown district wasn’t the architecture; it was the people.

“I think we found everyone,” Grace said with displeasure.

Construction equipment and trucks were crammed onto every street visible from their location. Tractors, cranes, and dump trucks had been parked everywhere, including near Union Station. There might have been parking room for more on the tracks themselves, but the gridlock was so intense, there was no way for new arrivals to get there.

A tall building stood along the edge of the tracks, providing a first glimpse of what they might expect deeper inside the buildings where the rock would be found. It had once been wrapped with glass windows, but now almost all the glass on the three sides closest to the furrow were gone. It left a ten-story grid of windowless offices exposed to the elements. She pointed to the top. “That’s where we’re going first.”

“Take the high ground,” Shawn said with agreement in his voice.

“Yeah. Before we get into those trucks, I want to know what we’re going to find. Maybe we’ll even figure out where the TKM honcho is set up.”

Asher took a picture with his expensive watch.

“Sightseeing?” she asked with mirth.

“Something like that. I’m recording this part of our journey in case someone tries to paint us as terrorists or rabble-rousers, like they did when we recorded our, uh, meme-friendly message to the tourists in Yellowstone. I want everyone to know we’re doing this for them, not ourselves.”

“I’ll vouch for you,” the Crow chairman added. “And if they don’t believe me, they’ll have this to contend with.” He tapped the strap of his rifle, hung over his shoulder.

Asher and Shawn faced each other. “Thank you,” Asher replied.

She took a few steps in the loose rocks of the railroad grade. “Take all the pictures you want. In fact, email them to me so I can show my mom and…I mean, just my dad.” She kept walking, hoping to gloss over the mistake.

At the street next to the target building, the trucks were parked within inches of each other, inconveniently leaving as little room as possible. She needed to hop up on fenders a couple of times to get across. Grace looked through the windshield of a commercial pickup truck as she walked along its front bumper. No one was inside, nor was anyone in the other nearby vehicles.

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