End Times Box Set [Books 1-6] by Carrow Shane

Author:Carrow, Shane [Carrow, Shane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2018-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

Volume V: Kingdom of Hell

SEPTEMBER

“The belief of a cruel god makes a cruel man.”

Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

September 1

I’d done a lot of insane shit since the rise of the undead. In fact, I’d done a lot of insane shit since I got up that morning: from Moreton Island, to the white-knuckle chase across the bay pursued by New England’s attack choppers, the sprint through the airport and the game of chicken on the runway.

None of it made my heart feel like it was going to explode as much as jumping out of that plane did.

Maybe if I’d been skydiving before it would have helped. Well, I hadn’t. One minute I was up there in that bubble of light and warmth and sound, a conceivable human space, looking at other people all around me. The next moment the fighter jet had blown a hole in the fuselage and I was out and gone, into the cold and dark, plummeting into the night with my hands curled around the PAL codebook.

I’m sure I was screaming. I was tumbling and turning, dropping through the sky like a stone. I got a glimpse of the plane, already far above, fire trailing from one engine. It may as well have been an angel among distant stars. That tiny little cargo bay, everybody inside, gathered around the truck: that was gone, forever. Irrevocably lost to me.

There was only one place I was going to end up.

As I fell – wind ripping all around me, blasting into my face, like being strapped to the front of a Ferrari – I shoved the codebook into the pocket of my jeans and began fumbling across my own torso for the chute release. I didn’t know whether I had five seconds or five hundred seconds before I was going to hit the ground.

I yanked a cord. The parachute erupted from my back and suddenly the straps around my arms and legs dug in hard, and I almost got whiplash, but the deceleration was a relief: here I was now, drifting, floating, descending down to the ground.

As for what that kind of ground that was, I had no idea. The sun had gone down but the moon hadn’t come up yet, and the world below me was a featureless dark space. There was a blotch of light somewhere to the south, a town or something, on the edge of a lake by the looks of it. That was all I could use as judgement for how long until I hit the ground.

It came up quicker than I thought. I got a sense of something solid below me – a sense of sound, leaves shifting in the darkness – and suddenly I had my hands raised to my face, crashing through foliage, leaves and sticks, a branch against my leg…

And then suddenly my bare feet hit the ground, and I toppled and stumbled forward even as I felt the parachute snag, caught in the treetops, stopping me from tumbling down a slope.

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