Escape The Dark (Book 1): Dark Tides by Fawkes K.M

Author:Fawkes, K.M. [Fawkes, K.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Thriller
Published: 2020-02-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

June 4

Adam quickly settled into the new routine of life on the ship with only four passengers. Now that the drugs were gone, now that Cody’s friends and Ray had departed, the entire atmosphere had changed and the days had taken on a whole new rhythm.

Sara no longer cooked for the group. By unspoken consensus, everyone seemed to have agreed that there was no point in pretending to have a chef aboard. No one was here to do a job. No one was here as an employee of Cody Granger. They were all here as equals, trying to survive.

Artem still drove, though, mostly because he was the only one who really knew how. Cody had a vague idea of what the various controls did, but he had never taken the time to really learn. As for Adam, he spent a few hours every day in the control room talking to the captain and watching him operate the boat, but he knew he would never be able to do it with the level of skill Artem possessed.

Still, he had to try, because you never knew when something might happen. You never knew when someone might be taken out of commission. So day after day he returned to the control room, and day after day he watched and tried to absorb the information.

When he wasn’t in the control room, Adam made an effort to go down to the first deck and socialize with his shipmates. Since no one lived on this level, it had become the place to go for meals, conversations, and general interactions with other human beings. Cody could often be found in the hot tub, leaning on the deck, as he had the night he and Adam had spoken here, and staring off into the distance. Adam wondered if his friend still found the view beautiful.

Sometimes they dropped anchor and stayed in one place for days at a time. When the ship was anchored, Artem usually seized the opportunity to retire for his cabin and sleep for extended stretches of time. Although he knew it was important to keep the lines of communication open with his shipmates, Adam usually took these times as an excuse to hide out in his own cabin. It was a relief, on occasion, to get away from Artem’s cold calculations, from Cody’s morose slump, from Sara, who carried the radio with her everywhere she went now and always had it turned on so that Adam could hear doom being forecast every time she entered a room.

In his room, things were restful, and even though he could never forget what was going on in the outside world, he could ignore it for a while. He could lie on his bed and close his eyes and just feel the rocking of the ocean.

But six weeks after their crew had divided itself in half, an unpleasant landmark was reached.

Adam wandered into the pantry behind the kitchen. Since Sara had given up cooking, he and the others had been fending for themselves when it came to food.

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