Radioactive by H. G. Lynch

Author:H. G. Lynch [Lynch, H. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-18T22:00:00+00:00

Turns out, Rex can actually drive pretty well. I hadn’t even thought about it until we were on the road. I ask him how he knows how to drive, and he says his dad taught him. I don’t ask any more questions. I know better than to push that subject.

Despite my nervousness about what we’re doing, I can’t help the thrill of excitement I feel over being in the car. I’ve never been in a car before, at least not one that ran. I spend the first twenty-minutes of the journey with my face pressed against the window, a huge, childish smile on my face as I watch the city roll by.There are crumbling buildings and filthy streets and people turning their heads in surprise to watch us drive past. Most of them have probably never seen a working car before.

We get to the edge of the city, to the border of the Freelands, and the scenery changes.The ruins of a once-glittering metropolisturn to miles of sprawling fields with trees slowly creeping over the abandoned land. They seem to be trying to return it to a time long forgotten, centuries before The End, before people began to crawl over every inch of the Earth like maggots on a corpse.

Eventually, I get used to the vibration and rumbling of the car, and my thoughts start to drift to where we’re heading and what we’re planning on doing. I know I need to make a plan, but I’m exhausted and my nerves feel frayed — getting kidnapped and threatened will do that do a girl.

Anyway, who knows how long it’ll be before we get there. The roads in this part of the country, I suspect, were never really well maintained, even before The End.Nowadays, they’re mostly burns on the land, blackened scars of gravel and broken asphalt running between fields and over mountains. Even if we knew exactly how to get to the Centre, it could still take us forever to find roads that haven’t been sucked into sinkholes or hadn’t crashed down the side of a mountain in a landslide. Maybe Shayne knows, but he’s not talking, and I prefer him that way. Over time, the land has begun to reassert itself, healing the scars humanity has left behind, and destroying the fading landmarks of a time when humans thought they ruled over Mother Nature — boy, were those idiots ever wrong.

Watching the world zip past at fifty miles an hour, I feel my eyes starting to get heavy. I slouch in my seat, lean my elbow on the car door and my chin in my hand, and I think I see the glint of the black water of the loch in the distance.Slowly, I tumble into dreams about a time when the loch water was blue and the leaves on the trees were green.

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