Hell Revisited (Hell happened) by Stenzelbarton Terry & Stenzelbarton Jordan

Author:Stenzelbarton, Terry & Stenzelbarton, Jordan [Stenzelbarton, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: White Feather Press
Published: 2013-11-21T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

The two newest adult women to the farm, Karen and Natalie and the Florida man, Tim, did morning milking and farming chores while plans were hashed out in the shelter. The three were living together in the spare motorhome that had been acquired for their use and were still finding ways they could contribute to the farm.

The warning from Keith at the Smith Compound galvanized the Saunders Farm into taking extreme action to protect the farm. Jerry looked to Cleve, Buff and Tia for guidance at breakfast the following morning. Kellie and her assistant LT were there, so were Eddie, Randy, Monica, Nick and Tony.

Cleve cut right to the heart of it. “We need to get to the depot as soon as we can. We need to replace the SWAT truck which we can’t fix and acquire get some military-grade weapons.”

“We can’t get anything we won’t know how to use safely,” Jerry warned. “It wouldn’t do to have some big-assed gun only to have it break our arm when we try to shoot it.”

“That’s a good point. I am a Marine, but I was educated to be an astronaut and scientist. I wouldn’t even think of trying to play with howitzers or tanks. I can set up defensive positions, lay land mines, call in air strikes and do reconnaissance, but I can’t plan a battle.”

“No land mines,” Jerry said emphatically. “I don’t want some innocent kid being blown to hell five years from now because we forget to disarm one.” Hannah was pouring fresh coffee for everyone and she looked at Jerry. She was becoming quite the little executive assistant and Jerry had told her so, but she was also hearing the grisly details someone so young shouldn’t have had to be exposed to.

“I think we should wait, at least until we get back from the depot, before making any more detailed plans. For all we know the place is destroyed or been scavenged completely empty.

“I think the sooner we get on the road this morning, the sooner we can start figuring out what we can and can’t do.”

Kellie spoke up for the first time during the meeting. “Something we might want to consider is finding some way to make contact with the Indiana group. Keith said there was a ‘full bird’ there?” Cleve told her a “full bird” was a colonel and would outrank the lieutenant colonel. “Maybe if the colonel has a growing community, he’s not some despot and can tell the Smith Compound who they have on their hands.”

“That’s not a bad idea,” Tony said. “Next time I talk with Keith I’ll see what frequencies they’re on and at what time and try to make some kind of contact.”

“Can’t hurt,” Jerry agreed.

“Do we have time to make a secret tunnel?” asked Hannah, who had sat down next to Kellie with her coffee cup filled with chocolate milk. “Every castle has a secret tunnel.”

Everyone looked at her and Hannah was afraid she’d said something stupid. She had a look of apprehension written all over her face.

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