Salvaged by Maya Riley

Author:Maya Riley [Riley, Maya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Taking one last look around our campsite, I couldn’t see anything that we’d missed, so I shouldered my pack and turned to face the trail we’d come down the day before.

This was actually one of the best times I’d had since the outbreak. I got to relax, swim, and actually get clean. Aside from that, relationships progressed. We all had packs of clean clothes, filled water bottles, and full stomachs from what nature had provided, so we barely needed to tap into the food we’d brought. We were doing pretty good right now.

Puppy trotted along ahead, her tongue lolling out of her mouth. She got in a lot of action this morning, and she was still energized. Hopefully, some of her energy would dissipate for the car ride.

We weren’t able to figure out what was going on with Adam. Whatever it was, it stopped as soon as the threat was gone. We’d see what happened next time he faced rotters. Not so luckily, this world was full of them.

Once we reached the car, we packed our gear into the trunk, and then piled inside. This time Mateo was driving, and I was once again in the middle seat. Maura was on my left, while Puppy curled up into a ball to my right. Adam was in the passenger seat, fiddling with the buttons on the car radio. It was all static, and he was determined not to give up. That was one of the things I liked about him, his perseverance. When he really wanted something, he didn’t give up until he got it.

I’d offered to take over the knob turning and give him a break, but he wouldn’t let me. Nothing against me, he said, but it was an issue for him. He’d become obsessed, determined that it would be the way he was going to save us, his contribution to our survival.

“So, if two of you have some cool powers, does that mean I’ll get one too?” Maura inquired, breaking the silence about fifty miles down the road.

“I have no idea, Maura. I don’t know how this works, at all. So far it’s kinda just… happened.” I shrugged.

“But according to what we found out back at the lab, people turn into either rotters or get a power? That’s what it seems like to me,” she mused.

“That’s what it seems like, yes. We’re still figuring it all out.” I tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. “But if it’s either turn into a rotter or get some kind of magical power, I’d rather not take that chance with you.”

“What if you try to ‘heal’ the rest of us?”

My hand stilled in the air, halfway back to resting in my lap. “I have no idea. I don’t really want to find out though. If I changed you into a rotter, I don’t know what I’d do.”

“You’re going to change us by accident though?”

“Maura—”

“That’s how it works, right?”

I sighed. “I really don’t know how anything works. I’m mostly flailing through all of this, figuring things out right alongside you.

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