Keepers of the Sky: A post-apocalyptic climate survival thriller (Rainbow Warriors, book 4) by Shirley Bear Fedorak

Author:Shirley Bear Fedorak [Bear Fedorak, Shirley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: YuJu Publishing
Published: 2021-11-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Secret Agent Nick

We walked for hours, slipping from one structure to another, and keeping to the shadows. Pockets of slaves and guards worked on some of the nearly-finished buildings, and helicopters and hovers regularly landed on the tarmac.

Heba groaned. “When’s this gonna end? I’m beat.”

In the lead, Freud rounded a corner, then stepped back, squishing my sore toes.

“Ow.”

I stifled the sound at Freud’s head shake. “Guards,” he mouthed.

“So what now?”

He shrugged. “Back track and try another route?”

“FoFo, what about me?” Napa said.

Heba giggled. “FoFo?”

A slight smile crossed Freud’s face, and he hunkered down close to Napa. “What’s your plan, Miss Napa?”

She smiled brightly. “I can take a look-see. They won’t pay me no mind, I’m just a Yanomami kid.”

Freud glanced at me. “It could work, you know.”

And it did work. Napa melted into the site, moving in and out of buildings, sometimes carrying a few bricks and pretending she was working, but all the while listening to conversations, checking out the site, and counting the guards.

I stroked Pat-Pat’s shivering body. “Napa’s good at this,” I said. “The CIA should recruit her in a couple years.”

Freud snorted. “I doubt the CIA will function for much longer. The world’s shutting down. You know that as well as I do.”

Then what would happen to kids like Napa and Ramón?

Napa dodged between campfires and skipped across a clearing in full view. No one paid her any attention.

Ramón let out a deep breath when she joined us. So did Pat-Pat.

“They not looking at me. Not too smart.”

We retreated to another unoccupied suite. I leaned back on a blue lounger. The monitor lit up and a soft voice said, Your request?

Freud shook his head. I shut off the monitor.

“Okay, Napa, spill.”

She took a deep breath. “Place called The Ark. For rich people hiding when world goes to hell.”

“Napa!”

Napa blinked. “What? I’m just saying, is all.”

I ignored the snickers behind me. “Don’t curse or you’ll be as bad as these hoodlums.”

“Go on, Napa,” Freud said.

“When Mother Earth fixes up, they gonna come out of Ark. Take over world. All be theirs cuz losers be dead, I heard guy say.”

“Who’s in charge?”

Napa shrugged, her eyes on the left-over tortilla bread on the table. She licked her lips, and I handed her a piece of bread smothered in peanut butter. She wolfed it down.

“Never heard name, but men kept sayin’ gen-er-al.”

A worried frown creased Freud’s high forehead. “Cardiff. He’s behind this installation.”

“They been making Ark three years, close to done,” Napa said. “Bad guys talked about killing grunts cuz work done.” She glanced at Freud, then me. “They wouldn’t kilt my brothers and sister, would they?”

Freud exchanged a worried look with me over Napa’s head. “Don’t worry, Napa, we’ll rescue the kids before then.”

“So let’s get this straight. We’ve stumbled on an installation where government elite are stockpiling food and supplies to ride out Turmoil, then they’ll take over the world and such,” Ker said. “And they’ve turned Yanomami kids into disposable slaves.”

“A few cogs missing, but that’s about right,” Freud said.

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