Nineveh's Child by Gerhard Gehrke

Author:Gerhard Gehrke [Gehrke, Gerhard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lucas Ross Publishing
Published: 2017-05-14T23:00:00+00:00

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The high engine whine was now the loudest sound, and it soon grated on Dinah’s ears. From what light she could see through the crack in the door, she guessed it was sometime in the afternoon. The ride felt like it would never end. More than once she thought through the steps that had brought her to this point, and wondered how big of a blunder she had made by surrendering.

The truck began to climb a moderate grade. They stopped a few times, and she heard voices at each stop, along with another sound: the scraping of metal. Rattling gates were being opened. They had arrived.

When the truck parked and the back opened, she could see the sun was low but still bright. A new guard stepped in and opened the door to her cage. She crawled out and had a difficult time getting her legs and back to straighten. She held on to the back gate for stability as she stepped down to the ground. The sensation of the ride lingered. The world would be bouncing for a while.

They had parked in front of a large single-level concrete building. Oak and pine trees grew around the gray structure. Beyond the trees was sky. They were high on a hill or a mountain. When she had been taken from Nineveh as a child, it had been night and she hadn’t seen her surroundings, but the building itself was ugly and massive and familiar in a way she couldn’t specify.

The split-lip hunter appeared behind her and gestured her forward.

A rolling metal door was raised via a loud motor, the portal big enough for the truck to be driven inside. Two other identical doors serviced more cargo bays within the structure.

They walked through the door into a very large space that ran the length of the building. Now she recognized where she was: the greenhouse. The ceiling held an enormous clear skylight. A jumbo jet could pass down through the opening, probably, if her sense of scale on pictures of such aircraft were accurate. Underneath the skylight was a garden stretched out across numerous narrow catwalks. Below would be the ponds of fish. A rush of familiarity surged through her, although the place appeared bigger than before.

She didn’t see anyone but a handful of the hunters. At least a dozen trucks were parked against one wall, along with stacks of bundled goods. A giant wall partition lay open. This accounted for her misremembering the size of the greenhouse’s interior. As a child she never got to see the trucks or the metal doors to the outside. This was the part of the operations of the redoubt that she had never known about: the accumulation of supplies from the surface.

She felt stupid. The redoubt was never sustainable, not even close. The hunters and the trucks were the apparatus that allowed them to eat, sleep, and live clean of the dirt and infections of the outer world. Nineveh had survived the fall of the

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