SODIUM:1 Harbinger by Stephen Arseneault

Author:Stephen Arseneault [Arseneault, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0077FSFJY
Publisher: Stephen Arseneault
Published: 2013-08-16T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

As the pre-dawn light began to glow I once again picked up Bull’s fly rod and headed over to the lake for an attempt at some breakfast. We would need it. The clouds from the day before were now completely gone and the stars were once again shining in the dimly lit sky.

We told Bull and Susi to return to their sleeping bags where they could sleep in for an extra hour before the sun would begin to show. It was an attempt to return the favor he had given me earlier. I wasn’t sure if it would do any good.

The hour gave me enough time to reel in a few extra fish, giving us a hardy meal for breakfast. After gutting and cooking the catch myself, the others joined me around the campfire. When the fish had been consumed we began packing up for our next leg of the hunt for an alien base.

Before leaving, we took a few minutes to talk about what we might do when we next encountered the demons. That’s when I sprang my ideas on the others. We could set up different traps as we got closer to where we thought they might be. We would then attempt to lure them into them, giving us an advantage in our fight.

In my growing confidence and boldness I offered to be bait for at least one of the trap ideas. Bull looked at me curiously and asked where this new guy had come from. I didn’t know what to say, so I just gave him a shrug. My compulsive behavior was turning away from fear and towards the cockiness that I sometimes showed. In my younger days it was a trait that usually appeared just before I got myself into trouble. It was a lesson that I could never seem to learn.

We slipped on our packs and started back down to Frog Creek towards the east end of Lake Eleanor. We would follow the lake around to Eleanor Creek and then Eleanor Creek to Cherry Creek. We would then continue up Cherry Creek and cut over to Woods Ridge to the southwest of Cherry Lake. We thought that would take us right to the area where I had seen the meteor fall several nights before.

Frog Creek brought with it a half mile stretch of steep canyon walls on either side. The canyon could only be accessed from one end or the other, so we were confident that there would be no sneak attacks along the way. As we hiked the rough terrain along the creek, I ran idea after idea through my head. I dreamt of how we might make use of the particular area we were in. I looked for loose boulders that could be rolled downhill or for logs and trees that we might be able to somehow turn into snares.

The further along we walked the further into this deadly game of war I fell. I pictured myself as the triumphant hero standing on top of one of the demon machines that I had just pummeled with my bat.

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