Retribution by Adrienne Lecter

Author:Adrienne Lecter [Lecter, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-10T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

It took us a good twenty minutes to make it back to the highway. The rising sun did a good job chasing away shadows, but there was still movement going on occasionally between the cars. I’d been afraid to find it completely overrun, our retreat from the intersection somehow drawing streaks of shamblers after us. Whether we’d gotten lucky there—or terribly unlucky to run into them in the first place—nobody knew. Looking around, I noticed more destruction in these parts—cars not just mangled from accidents but windows smashed, hoods and sides dented as if someone had used them for anger management and failed. The odd cadaver—animals, for the most part—lay torn apart between the wrecks, some still buzzing with flies, others years old. Most were smaller than humans, making me guess they’d been beloved family pets at one time. Out there, in the small villages, most critters had escaped relatively unscathed, leading to a rising population of wandering—if mostly shy—packs roaming through their own kind of paradise. That here the shamblers had been skilled enough to hunt down dogs and cats made the hair at the back of my neck stand on end. That didn’t bode well for us—but then, what else was new? Gallager could attest to their hunting skills. Seeing a partly torn-down sign at the front of a supermarket made me wonder if they’d been smart enough to realize what bounties lay in there. Likely, since we’d more than once had to clear out a store we’d raided before we could check on food boxes. Cereals and rice were often the last non-canned goods left, their plastic packaging keeping enterprising shamblers from smelling the contents. From what I could tell, the undead masses had raided the houses in suburbia as well, or maybe just used them for nesting. As much as those details burned on my curious mind, right now wasn’t a good time to dwell on them. Skipping from cover to cover took my entire focus, and although I felt more rested than last night, it was still a physically demanding task.

In record time, the heat of the day caught up to us, drenching me in new layers of sweat before long. We made progress, but for every longer dash we managed that brought us closer to downtown, we ended up having to wait for a moving corpse to either get close enough so we could kill it easily, or let it pass by. We were the third team from the front today, and before long Richards split us into two parts—Cole and Hill doing their thing, and me getting stuck with Richards. I let him take point for the time being, but when he tried to wrest that privilege from me again after a quick break, I quickly signaled up a storm of threats, although he may have had trouble interpreting half of them from the quizzical look that crossed his face. I honestly couldn’t give less of a fuck if me threatening to slash his throat came out more like an offer for a hand job.

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