Dead Frost by Adam Millard & Chris Taggart

Author:Adam Millard & Chris Taggart
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Horror, Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780957103313
Publisher: Crowded Quarantine Publications
Published: 2012-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

Things were bad; Susie Bloom knew it, Maggie Cox knew it, the entire goddam camp knew it, but there was nothing like a bit of icing on a cake, and that came in the form of silence.

'Shhhh,' Susie said. 'Do you hear that?'

'Mommy, you're scaring me,' Kelly said, latching onto her mother's cardigan.

'It's okay, honey,' Susie said, stroking Kelly's hair. 'There's nothing there, but the generators appear to have stopped.'

'Well, wouldn't that just be a splendid turn of events?' Maggie said, lighting a cigarette, coughing a few times, and then going in for a second, deeper drag.

'I don't hear anything,' Kelly said in a high-pitched tone that suggested her mother was either hearing things, or had gone completely coco-loco.

'That's what I'm afraid of,' Susie said.

Henry Colburn, who was now tied to a chair in the middle of the corridor, began to tut. 'Tsk, tsk, tsk. You know what you need?' he asked, and despite his face being hidden by the darkness, it was evident that he was smiling. Grinning, even, like the maniac that he was.

'Shut up,' Maggie said. 'You lost the privilege to talk when you tried to fucking kill me.'

Kelly gasped as the curse-word resonated around the hallway. It was a funny word, though, wasn't it; Kelly thought so and began to silently mouth it to herself, though she would never dare to say it out loud. Not while her mother was around.

'What you need is somebody to fix the generators,' Colburn continued. The fact that he was bound to a chair, at the mercy of two very pissed off ladies and a wet-behind-the-ears little girl seemed to have no bearing on him, at all. 'And I think you'll find that I'm the only fucker in this hellhole who has the slightest idea how to make 'em work again.'

'Bullshit!' Susie said, and then apologised to Kelly, who was somewhat proud of her mother's outburst. 'You don't know a thing about those generators. You're a soldier, not a mechanic. The only thing you know is how to murder old ladies when they least expect it.' She paused, a beat, and then added, smiling, 'And you couldn't even do that right.'

'I'm not that old,' Maggie said, slightly offended. 'I've just had a difficult life.'

'I know how to make 'em run again,' he said, his voice hoarse and thick in the darkness. He spat, a globule of blood and bile landed at Susie's feet.

'Well, you're quite the charmer, aren't you?' Maggie said, drawing on her cigarette and exhaling a plume of bluey-grey smoke. 'But if you think we're letting you go after what you tried to pull, you've got another thing coming.'

And then, Henry Colburn did something that none of them expected. In fact, it caught Maggie so much by surprise that she almost fell into the wall.

He laughed.

And he laughed.

He was like the evil villain in a James Bond movie, only worse. He was laughing so hard that tears began to stream down his face. If they thought he was a maniac before, then now he was totally fucking bonkers.

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