Diary of the Displaced - Omnibus (Books 1-3) by James Glynn

Author:James, Glynn [James, Glynn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

We tried to rest for a few hours, up on the second floor, with Rudy and Adler guarding the downstairs throughout most of the night. I don't think I managed to drop off for more than a few minutes at a time, what with the constant din outside made by the Maw and the zombies.

When daylight came, the rain had finally subsided, and Reg and I climbed out of the window and down the wall to get outside, we saw just how many zombies there had been.

Everywhere, all over the ground were bodies, some piled two or three high in places. There were enough gaps for us to weave our way between them, but the sheer number was mind-numbing.

Thousands.

"Whole damn town must have gotten infected and been sat here waiting for someone to come by for all these years," said Reg, "though I reckon that there is a lot more here than would have lived in just this town."

DogThing showed up as we were slowly winding our way through the mess, heading out of the town once more.

"But where were they hiding?"

"They weren't," said Adler. "I saw it from down on the street as you were settling in up in the building. They were buried under years and years of desert sand and dust. When the rain came it loosened it all up and they started crawling out of the ground."

"Crazy."

"But it must have rained before? They must have been washed out before now?"

"No," said Reg. "The rain only started a few days ago. I'd never seen anything like it in all the time I've been travelling these lands. Something strange happened just before I met all of you. Something changed and the rain came down. It's never rained like this before."

"Do you think we did this?" asked Rudy. "Did we do something to make the rain come?"

"Not anything that I can think of," said Adler.

"The rain from The Corridor?" I asked.

Adler looked thoughtful.

"Do you think that maybe the rain is somehow linked to us? Maybe to the compass?" he asked.

"I have no idea. But do we know anything about it?"

Wait.

"DogThing. Did it always rain a lot where we went? I mean before we went to The Corridor."

"No."

"No. That's not it then."

"Look, folks," said Reg. "I hate to break up your little chat, but I think we need to get the hell out of this town. We don't know if that is all of the creatures. There could be more that haven't washed up."

No arguments there.

We headed straight out of the town, weaving our way through the mass of torn bodies. My stomach churned a few times as I saw the Maw feasting on their kills. I know that the creatures aren't human any more and that they are monsters, but they had been once. At least DogThing didn't eat them in front of me.

It took us an hour to get out of the town, and several times one of us would fire a weapon into one of the piles of bodies where something still twitched.

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