Feral Nation - Defiance (Feral Nation Series Book 8) by Scott B. Williams

Author:Scott B. Williams [Williams, Scott B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-28T16:00:00+00:00

Ten

KEITH COULD SEE BY the volume of smoke that darkened the sky over St. Martinville that Willis hadn’t exaggerated the number of house fires he’d reported. Keith figured it was more than half a dozen at this point, and he had no idea what they were heading into. He would have gone even if he had to go alone, but Ronnie had insisted on driving and Joe and Willis were in the seat behind him, all of them carrying their favorite rifles. Their presence wasn’t as confidence-inspiring as having Eric, Bart and Greg along for backup, but if these parish citizens wanted to do their part to help their neighbors, Keith wasn’t going to say no. And while taking them along could in some way compromise his mission, he decided the trade-off verses going alone was worth it. Besides, they had all volunteered for the militia training he proposed anyway; it just so happened that lesson number one had turned out to be the real thing.

At Keith’s direction, Ronnie approached the town via a side road that led through an old warehouse area, south of what had once been the central business district before everything there, including the sheriff’s office, had been boarded up and abandoned. Keith could tell the smoke was coming from a residential area to the north, and he knew all too well from recent experience that approaching it directly could mean running into an ambush. He directed Ronnie to an abandoned alley between two metal lumberyard buildings, and there they parked the truck to continue on foot.

“Nobody does any shooting unless we get ambushed, or I give the order, is that clear?” Keith reminded them, as they all checked their weapons upon leaving the vehicle. “We’re here to find out what’s going on and to get people to safety if there are any survivors.”

Keith knew there were very few people remaining in St. Martinville; far fewer than the number of rural parish residents who’d chosen to stay. Most had left not long after the hurricane took out the power and they realized that due to the violence everywhere, it wasn’t going to be restored anytime soon. Living in any town or city in such conditions was untenable for most, and security had been a constant problem ever since the sheriff and so many of the deputies had been murdered. Those residents that remained this long were stubborn and self-sufficient, and many of them had already had to use their firearms to deal with looters and fight off attempted home invasions. The threat they were facing now was out of their league though, and Keith had made the rounds to warn them of it after Eric returned with his bad news. The smoke that filled the air indicated to Keith that some of those who’d doubted him had learned they were wrong today. He knew he was probably too late to help them, but he had to go and find out, and whatever he learned there would be useful intel to share with Eric when he returned.

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