STEADFAST Book One: America's Last Days (The Steadfast Series 1) by Telbat D.I

Author:Telbat, D.I. [Telbat, D.I.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: In Season Publications
Published: 2017-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 5

Joyce and Eric left for Adderthorn two days later. The distant military force, approaching ever closer from somewhere to the south, had been doing so for months. But it had taken Joyce's compassion for the people who had dismissed her to stir up Eric's own sensitivity and willingness to warn the town. Danger of the worst sort was coming. A brutality of Armageddon-like proportions was about to rumble up the highway. Being a Christian meant expressing Christ's attitude toward others. Eric could see that God was using Joyce to teach this to him.

Together, they chose to save several hours by crossing the gorge rather than circling the mountain to reach the town. Thus, Eric carried his spiked boots and a tree saw to fall a new tree across the gorge. Since Joyce was coming with him, he didn't organize any speech for the people of Adderthorn. She would be the one to convince them of the danger. After all, she'd lived with the people, up until a few years earlier.

They selected a tree of the right height and girth near the southern edge of the deep gorge. On the warm, spring day, Eric began sawing the notch cut to guide the direction the tree would fall. Halfway through the tree, he stopped to allow Joyce to make the final horizontal cut.

Watching her work in her new buckskin clothing, Eric wondered what kind of man Brad must've been to win a woman like her. Eric had met her under fierce circumstances, and she'd placed herself at risk for her son to meet him, and then to entrust Andy and herself to his care. Now, after two nights of reading the Bible, she was willing to sacrifice everything to care for other people. He wondered if he had that same love for the souls of others. He hadn't had such compassion, but hers was rubbing off on him, growing inside his lonely heart.

"Here," she said. "You finish it."

Though she'd helped cut down dozens of trees on the ridge for the cabin addition, none of those could've killed her if they'd bounced wrong upon falling. This was a pine tree, over one hundred and fifty feet tall. Wiping her brow from the labor, she stepped back and let Eric have the saw. He finished the horizontal cut, but the tree didn't fall. Since he'd brought no axe or wedges from the cabin, they stood back and waited for the wind. Together, they watched the pine's upper reaches for a sturdy breeze to finish the job.

"I don't want to be away from Andy overnight," she said without looking at him. "What's the longest we can stay in Adderthorn to still get back by nightfall?"

"If we get there around noon, we can stay an hour, but no more."

"I'll expect you to hold us to that." She looked away from the tree and into his face. "No matter what kind of drama my brothers draw me into, make sure we leave on time."

"You're expecting problems?" He touched his revolver on his hip.

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