Dark Titan Journey: Finally Home by Thomas A. Watson

Author:Thomas A. Watson [Watson, Thomas A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Dark Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Military
Amazon: B01605OLTO
Publisher: Winlock Press
Published: 2015-09-28T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Day 48

Sitting up and watching the sun touch the horizon, Nathan looked at the group sleeping. They had made the dash to cross I-80 last night and were camped thirty-three miles north of the interstate. The trip turned out to be very anticlimactic compared to what they were expecting. They did have to hide in a draw waiting on a military convoy heading west.

As they crossed the interstate they looked east toward North Platte and saw something they didn’t think they would see for a long time: a lit-up city on the horizon. It looked like a jewel sitting on a black satin cloth. Every house they passed had the front door open. Once they crossed the interstate and made some distance, Nathan checked on a house just to confirm it had a doorstop, and it did.

Nathan had scoured Amanda’s notes from the radio yesterday and today and nobody had mentioned it. He had read the military reports and they all talked about rounding up people spotted. One radio report he kept looking at was an operator calling out coordinates and for spot report. Nathan looked it up on his map and found the location. It was a house just outside of Yuma, Colorado.

An hour later someone called out a negative spot report but positive action. Then an hour later a spot repot was called out six miles away of four moving on bikes. Was this someone who moved a doorstop? And if they did, how the hell did they find them six miles away? He couldn’t think of a way you could scan a hundred-plus square miles in an hour.

As he was thinking, Emma ran over and jumped in his lap. “You like beating on me, don’t you?” Nathan asked.

Emma pointed up. “Sky.”

“I don’t even want to know what you mean by that,” Nathan said, pulling her up into his lap. When they had made camp last night, he slept first letting the others cover six hours, then he woke at noon, letting the group sleep. He looked up and saw Chip squatting down beside him. “Want to join her?”

Chip smiled and climbed in his lap. Nathan hadn’t hand out the presents he had collected from the houses yesterday; he wasn’t in the mood. But today he laid them out for everyone. He had found crayons and coloring books for Chip. When Nathan got up he gave them to him. Chip opened the coloring book to a blank page and started drawing.

Nathan’s experience with Casey’s drawings let him know he was by no means an expert, but what Chip drew was a little worrying. Nathan swore it was dead bodies, and someone was chopping heads off. He would show Jasmine after he woke her up, and if that didn’t work he would have Casey interpret the drawings.

“Hey guys let’s get the others up so we can eat,” Nathan offered. The two jumped out of his lap and took off to the group. Seeing the kids waking up the others, Ares and Athena ran over to help.

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