Feral Nation - Insurrection by Scott B. Williams

Author:Scott B. Williams [Williams, Scott B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-11T22:00:00+00:00

Twelve

BURYING HIS WIFE WAS the hardest thing Keith Branson had ever had to do. They laid her in one of two fresh graves in the cemetery behind the small family church she’d attended since childhood. Between her and the decade-old grave of her father, they laid her mother, who didn’t survive the heart attack she suffered that day Lynn was killed. After a somber service performed just two days after the hurricane swept through the area, Keith spent much of the next few weeks staying with his in-laws.

He’d gone back to the house he and Lynn built to check on it after the storm, but even if it weren’t damaged it would have been too painful to stay there alone with all his memories so soon after her death. He secured his gear and supplies and rearranged and covered things that would get damaged by the rain until he could find the motivation to come back and replace the roof, but it was a good month before he took a real interest in it again. When it started to feel crowded at the Guidry house with Jeanette’s three kids underfoot, Keith spent a few nights with his brother-in-law Vic, but that got old too after a while and he finally resolved to go home and rebuild.

The bayou-front house was an ideal base from which to operate in the present conditions, considering its seclusion and distance from the main roads. He had everything he needed on site, and most importantly, access to the entire river basin from his backyard. He’d repaired the dock first, but that was minor compared to the damage the winds had done to the house. Large areas of the decking and metal roof panels had been torn away and scattered far and wide in the surrounding woods, taking even some of the rafters out as well. Putting it all back together would give Keith plenty to do to stay busy when he wasn’t out patrolling the river.

He knew the work with his hands was good for him, keeping him from spending too much time sitting and thinking, and he knew Lynn wouldn’t want him to give up the house. It had been their dream together, and the more he thought about it over time, the more he realized he couldn’t just walk away from it, not anytime soon, anyway. He worked most days until it was either too dark to see or the mosquitoes were so ravenous they drove him inside to the screened-in porch. At night he sat there and listened to the night sounds of the bayou, thinking how the world beyond was quieter than it had ever been since he first laid eyes on this place.

The power was still out all over the parish and much of the region. He’d been through a couple of hurricanes since he came here, but both were years ago, when this was still a country of law and order. One of those storms had likewise left the area

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