Point of No Return: A Post Apocalyptic Dystopian Thriller (Surrender the Sun Book 3) by A. R. Shaw

Author:A. R. Shaw [Shaw, A. R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apocalyptic Ventures
Published: 2017-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

24

Walt

Shrill wails. Forever, the sound would be etched into his mind. Walt was certain of this fact. In what used to be quiet solitude, he would only hear her death.

At one point, Walt found the barrel of his rifle aimed between the crystal-blue eyes of this child instead of at the black bear, but the images continued to divide and multiply. He feared that ending her misery was out of his reach. It would be a mercy. It was the only thing he could offer her now. She no longer struggled. Even in her endless screaming, she somehow seemed to know that her pain would end sooner if she just surrendered to the bear.

Perhaps in the real world, he might be condemned. But then and there in nature’s realm, there was no other way. Ending her misery was all he could do now. “Get away!” he screamed, his voice catching even though he and the girls with rifles were still shooting at the relentless black bear that was pulling apart the child’s corpse with each shake of its head. Her arm was nearly severed. Her head was barely connected to her neck. Blood was crimson in the snow and seeping deeper into the white, icy crystals.

At his side, Mary continued to scream, too. If only he could calm her, he would feel that he’d accomplished something.

“No more!” he said, as the black bear rubbed its bloodied muzzle in the snow. There was a grunting and then a volley of gunfire. A roar. The bear finally collapsed upon his young victim.

“It’s over,” Walt yelled, collapsing, and then he was startled by another sound in the woods. More shuffling. Someone, he assumed, had gathered any survivors and harbored them in Mylar huts. Darkness engulfed their relentless foe. “Stoke the fire,” he said with his last conscious breath, hoping he’d done enough and Yeager would return in time to save the rest of them. “Keep up…the fires.”

Then darkness consumed him, too.

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