Divided We Stand by C. A. Rudolph

Author:C. A. Rudolph [Rudolph, C. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

Town of New Creek

Mineral County, West Virginia

Sunday, December 5th. Present day

Even through the dust-covered glass of the JLTV she was riding passenger in, Lauren could see the wooden poles, wire fencing, and other fortifications belonging to the prison camp from a long way off.

It appeared gruesomely artificial and looked as though it had been painstakingly pieced together with a blend of leftover, randomly mismatched components. It was strikingly similar to the camp from which she and the others had recently been rescued, and it seemed to jut out from the surrounding rural landscape like nothing she’d seen before.

The convoy slowed its pace and soon pulled off to the side of the road, coming to a stop not long after. Engines began to shut off, and doors were overheard as they creaked open. Unit personnel were soon seen filing out of the vehicles, but Lauren couldn’t tell if anyone from Tim Reese’s Unit Delta was present to greet them.

Then suddenly, as if they had all been drawn to the same commotion, several of the men furthest from the convoy darted toward the camp’s entrance while motioning and yelling for others to follow.

“What the hell was that all about?” Lauren asked, her head snapping left as her hand grabbed the door handle. “Did you see that?”

Woo Tang tranquilly removed his hand from the steering wheel and reached for her arm, pulling Lauren’s hand away from the door. “I did see. And while I am not certain what caused it, I am surely going to find out.” He glanced at her with a cautious eye. “Lauren Russell, you wait here until I return. Copy?”

“Yeah, I copy…I guess, but—”

“Please, just do as I have requested of you.” He then exited the JLTV and jetted off in the direction the other men had gone, leaving Lauren to remain with the influence of her inborn curiosity gaining ground at an exponential rate.

Lauren sat quietly for several minutes, but it was all she could do to remain that way. She stared out the window, her heart beating rapidly, unable to see anything apart from the makeshift, artificial structures within the camp and the primitive fencing surrounding them. “Dammit. This sucks. Am I a part of this campaign now or not?” she pondered aloud, but no one was present to provide her an answer.

She allowed a few more minutes to pass before taking one final look around and making the decision to exit the vehicle.

With the Zastava M70 pulled close at low ready, Lauren stepped cautiously away from the JLTV and the convoy, meandering off the gravel road and into the tall unkempt grass. The closer she got to the camp’s exterior walls, the more she could hear the source of the commotion.

Peering down the hill into a small valley and through the fence, she was able to see a large group of men, some of them members of the unit, others appearing as prisoners having recently been released from captivity, and they were engaged in a raging hand-to-hand brawl against one another.

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