Respire by Cody Prough

Author:Cody Prough [Prough, Cody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Steve heard the first rifle shot go off, even from the other side of this empty town the faint echo carried. His first impulse was to dart back but he knew that was unwise, he’d been holed up and away from the Sick Ward for days now. The follow up shots and noises convinced him to hurry along, though. He didn’t mean to be gone this long. After scouting out Tommy’s men and seeing their set up, he had hunkered down and taken some notes, a full intelligence report on their set up. The real question was how they were going to get inside of the Mahomet school without being detected, but it was time to get back.

On the path through Mahomet with, the rifle slung on his back and his handgun placed firmly in its holster, he had opted to take the trailer parks; hoping to avoid any of Tommy’s men on the way back. Snow caked the streets, showing no signs of life having been here for quite some time. It was one of the first areas locally to fall, the trailers never stood a chance against the monsters. It forced people to flee into town, though most of the residents were killed having nowhere else to go, their bodies long taken away by the lurkers, or picked clean with the bones left scattered about in yards and trailers; maybe one or two had been gunshot victims among the group.

He was walking through the yards of the trailers when he spotted a group of three looters, no doubt Tommy’s men if they were this close to town. They were a few streets away and hadn’t spotted him. Steve ducked, a cold sweat breaking out on his face. He watched as they went into a trailer a street away. After a few moments he sprinted towards an old pink trailer, the sides scraped and filled with holes, the cheap plastic damaged by a hailstorm that struck the town months before. As Steve pushed in the back door, closing it behind him quietly, he took a moment to glance around. It was a plain interior, the cheaply made furniture had been bust apart recklessly and scattered on the floor were old bags of food, the former residents weren’t anywhere in site. Cheap linoleum covered the kitchen floor, just off the living room where Steve had entered. Past the living room, in the back of the trailer he could spot three doors branching out from a purple hallway, leading to various rooms.

He only took a moment to examine his surroundings, heading towards the manufactured home’s kitchen, facing outwards where the squad of looters had been traveling. He could just start to hear them as they were walking out of the trailer and towards his road; not exactly the essence of a “stealth” operation.

My tracks…

Steve continued watching the trio, led by one man in a black parka with a striped armband, presumably to signify a rank, Steve guessed. Followed by what appeared to be a female in green, and another male in a red parka.

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