Red by Al K Line

Author:Al K Line [Line, Al K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781511412131
Amazon: B00VELUZIQ
Goodreads: 26468814
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2015-04-14T07:00:00+00:00

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After breakfast, and with the fire roaring higher than it safely should be so they could dry off fast, Edsel had approached the subject of what Aiden really wanted to do.

He tried his best to not make it seem like he wanted to abandon the young boy — which he didn't. Much as he was still reeling from the death of Kathy, and if he thought about it too much he knew he'd be no good to anybody, especially himself, he knew that Kathy and Aiden would have gotten on so well. She would have loved the cheeky little chappy, so he felt a responsibility partly because no twelve year old should be alone, and partly because he knew that Kathy would have loved Aiden.

We could have been like a proper little family. Even kept Martha too.

The best thing he could think of to do was simply to be honest. So they sat by the fire and talked.

It didn't really come as much of a surprise that Aiden absolutely didn't want to go back to his home, or be taken anywhere else where he would be alone for that matter. He wanted to stay with Edsel, even if he was red. Edsel had to smile at that, his Ink was about the only constant there was at the moment. He was red, would always be red, and there was not a damn thing he could do about it.

Apart from have my revenge.

Slowly through the night a tentative plan of sorts had formed, but if he was honest with himself it wasn't much of one — the chances of him coming out of it alive were not really very optimistic. He was a young man that had no experience fighting, kept to himself most of the time, out of necessity really all through his last few teenage years and beyond, and didn't really know what he was doing half the time — just your average guy that found himself living through the Apocalypse, albeit a rather subdued one.

But he had to try. He simply had to at least attempt to have his revenge, whatever the cost to himself personally.

But Aiden? What about Aiden?

All of this was explained — he held nothing back. Friendships were based on honesty, and if he had to be the adult then he needed to say things to Aiden like he was too — the kid was old beyond his years anyway, that was more than obvious.

"Watch," said Aiden, part way through their conversation. He pointed at the fire.

Edsel scampered backward quickly as the fire roared higher for a second, then returned to its normal intensity.

"I'm not just a normal twelve year old."

"Well, um, yeah, I can see that. How'd you do it?"

"It's hard to explain. I can kind of see the fire. Not see it — 'see' it. Not just in the normal way; I can see that it feeds off oxygen and that the more oxygen there is the hotter it will burn, so I can sort of.

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