Fortress Farm Trilogy: Volumes 1, 2 & 3 (Fortress Farm Series) by G.R. Carter

Author:G.R. Carter [Carter, G.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven – Shield of the Okaw

Headquarters – Okaw Valley SDC Wizards

One Year and Six Months after the Great Reset

Samuel Hamilton, the Founder’s younger son, parked his World War II-era jeep just outside the largest building in the sprawling complex holding the Wizard Academy. The rows of reconstructed metal buildings brought here from around SDC territory left enough space for gravel lanes, allowing large equipment to wind in and out. Each structure appeared as a bee hive, with workers filing in and out of overhead doors opened to expose the contents to the cool wet weather. Despite the temperature outside, heat came in waves from inside the large buildings. The only solace was a near-constant breeze in this part of the country. Workers utilized every door that could swing up or out to capture the air movements through their work space.

Sounds of engines and the clanking of tools forcing their will on metal ricocheted off the walls of the buildings. Sharp dings and clunks bounced back and forth, landing in the soft ear tissue of those not wearing protection, though few workers ignored the squishy plugs or plastic eye goggles provided in every work space. New arrivals quickly met those who had once let their guard down. Missing eyes and fingers provided examples that this was no game, object lessons of what happened when metal bit into soft body tissue.

The Wizard Academy began life as one machine shop on one retired engineer’s farm. Since then, a new building arose approximately every month. As the population of the Okaw Valley SDC grew, anyone deemed more valuable to the Wizards than to the Farms came to live and work here. The hours were infamous, and the burnout rate would have been atrocious if every day wasn’t a literal matter of life and death for the little cooperative trying to stay alive in a sea of chaos.

“Prince Hamilton, a pleasure to see you, sire!” Sam heard from just outside his line of sight.

“Save it, Delbert, I already use that prince stuff to annoy my big brother,” Samuel Hamilton replied to the leader of the Wizards, Delbert Kuhn.

“Huh, well I guess Founding Farmer, Jr. will just have to do then. That’s what I’ve always called your old man even before this all happened,” Delbert said with a wave of his arm.

“Quit dreaming about the way the world’s supposed to be, Delbert. And show me what we can use to defeat those Americans,” Sam said, pulling Delbert out of his brief lapse.

“Watch it, boy. I know that’s funny to you young punks, but that’s still my country you’re talking about,” Delbert said sternly, shaking a gnarled old finger in Sam’s direction.

“Not anymore, Mr. Wizard and you know it. I remember how you and Dad used to talk about the United States not being the place it was intended to be. Now it’s just more real, not a theory any more.

“Your country is right here in this barn, out there in those fields, and in those grandchildren of yours.

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