God of Chaos: Border Run: Book Three by J.D. Lancey

Author:J.D. Lancey [Lancey, J.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unbated Productions
Published: 2024-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

HOUR FIFTEEN

Before we circled that big pit to stand in line with the thousands trying to cross to Canada, Teah scraped some grime from the ground and marked the bottom of the exit door with a small T. She backed from the side of the building and searched for other points of entry both high and low. Some of the doors were huge enough for tanks and aircraft, but this one was built only to fit people or MedBots and stood no wider than Dash’s arm span.

“Does that T mean if we have to come back, we use this door?” Dash asked.

“Let’s hope we don’t have to come back,” Teah said.

The rest of Dearborn was ruined buildings, just like Cleveland and Sandusky and Toledo. Only here, nothing was green, probably thanks to the massive walls surrounding us.

“I see how they built their wall,” Teah said. “It’s like the old sea-forming impoundments in the mountains out west. Multiple-arch buttresses to keep the wall from collapsing on itself, only this part of the wall entirely encircles Dearborn for some reason.”

“How come?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” Teah said. “Nothing’s meant to get over to the other side. You can see the parapets about a quarter of the way up the wall. Those are for NUN peacekeepers, I’d bet.”

“Did they make it so strong to make it look like a hill on the other side?” Dash asked.

“Maybe,” Teah said. “This is still Canadian soil, but Dearborn claims autonomy. Canada might have just said fine and built their wall right around them.”

“Which way do we go around the big hole?” I asked.

“Good question,” Teah said. “It’s a terraced limestone quarry. They must have excavated right here to create the concrete for the wall. I bet there are quarries like this up and down the Great Lakes. I don’t understand why they would encircle a quarry with a wall.”

“Not around Lake Erie,” Dash said. “They don’t have quarries, I mean.”

“No,” Teah said. “Around Erie, they have strike drones and radioactive ships. When you can’t build a wall, you leave scorched earth.”

“Aren’t we going to go?” I said.

“I’m just trying to figure out what’s going on,” Teah said.

“We’re going to Canada,” Dash said. “We have to get in line.”

“Right,” Teah said. “I just want to avoid any more traps. We’ll get through the shanties and hug the east wall. Poor people. Desperate people. Stay close, kids. Don’t get distracted.”

We crossed through the shanties scattered through the fallen places. In Cuyahoga Valley, we slept in natural places like inside caves, but here in Dearborn, people raised little huts from clever things like plastic pallets and road signs. Teah worried that people in the shanties would cause us trouble, but they were too weak and sick and starving to bother us. Most of them were even too weak to stand in line.

“The pygmies have lots of NUN relief food,” I said, “why don’t these people?”

“Wealth accumulates wealth,” Teah said. “Poverty accumulates poverty.”

“But that’s not fair,” Dash said.

“I know,” Teah said.

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