Defending Camp_A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller by Ryan Westfield

Author:Ryan Westfield [Westfield, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-28T22:00:00+00:00

15

GEORGIA

The sun was rising. Everyone was already up, sitting around the embers of the campfire from the night before.

They’d had their coffee and eaten their venison.

Sadie sat a little off to the side, looking worried. She was running her hands through her hair continuously, a habit that she’d had in school when she’d been stressed. The teachers had actually been concerned about it, and had talked to Georgia about it during the parent teacher conferences. They’d wanted to send her to a psychologist, someone who specialized in child psychology. Georgia had dismissed the entire idea, resolving the problem by laying it out straight to Sadie. If Sadie didn’t want to have to spend her time talking to some shrink, Georgia had said, she’d better cut it out with that hair business. “Do it on your own time if you have to,” Georgia had said. “But don’t do it in school.”

“You OK, Sadie?” said Georgia, looking over at her daughter.

“Yeah, Mom,” said Sadie, not taking her hands out of her hair.

“You didn’t eat enough. Get your hands out of your hair and get your brother to give you another piece.”

“I don’t want any more. I’m not hungry.”

“Tough luck. You need fuel to fight. And it sounds like we’re going to have to fight. You may be my daughter, but you’re also my soldier.”

Sadie shot her a worried look. “They’re really coming?”

“We’ve got to plan for the worst.”

Everyone knew the situation. Everyone knew what John had reported, that some type of wild horde was coming their way.

Georgia stood up so that she could easily address John, Cynthia, James, and Sadie.

Looking down at them, they didn’t look anything like soldiers. Sure, they had weapons, and they knew how to use them. But they were tired and weary and they looked nervous.

“We’ve been through a lot,” said Georgia. “I know we’re all feeling like we can’t face yet another challenge, another invasion.”

“Yeah,” said Cynthia. “That about sums it up. I thought this place was supposed to be secure. Didn’t Max choose it because it was out of the way from everything? Well, seems like he did a hell of a job.”

“Save your sarcasm for later, Cynthia,” said Georgia, bearing down on her with her eyes. “We did the best we could. Max did the best he could. Who knows what it’d be like if we’d chosen somewhere else. It could be a lot, lot worse.”

“I don’t know,” said Cynthia. “There were plenty of abandoned-looking places that John and I came across. Right, John?”

“Those wouldn’t have worked as a home, Cynthia,” said John, speaking wearily. “They didn’t have the advantages of this place. The long term…”

“What advantages do we have here?” said Cynthia. “So far we’ve been attacked and…”

“All right, that’s enough,” snapped Georgia. “You two can save it for couples therapy. We can’t do anything about our current location, so there’s no point in discussing it. What we’ve got to do is get ready.”

“And how do you propose we do that?” said Cynthia, apparently unable to leave the snark out of her voice.

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