Sanctuary's Aggression by Maira Dawn

Author:Maira Dawn [Dawn, Maira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781092662949
Published: 2019-04-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Up to Me

Skye hummed a jaunty tune while cooking spaghetti on her orange camp stove for lunch that evening. When the phone rang, she startled. It was such a rare sound nowadays. Service had become spotty enough that when one of them worked it almost seemed surprising. She raced to the phone and answered.

"Hello!" Tricia said, the relief in her voice apparent.

"Hi back!" Skye almost bounced in happiness as she turned off the gas to the cooker.

"Oh my Lord, Skye, I'm so grateful to hear your voice! We all been callin and callin you and there ain’t been an answer! What've you been doing?" Tricia started out anxious but ended on an angry note.

Skye had a vague recollection of the phone ringing when she had been in the throes of her feverish delirium. She hurried to reassure Tricia. "I'm fine, don't worry. Really, I am. I was..." Her voice trailed off as she raised a hand to her cheek. "Well, you won't believe this, but I was Sick. I got over it though, like, actually over it! I am totally fine now."

"Skye," Tricia whispered, "No."

"I'm fine, Tricia! I am."

Tricia was quiet for a moment before saying, "How can that be?"

"Well, I'm not sure, but I am. And there has to be more than me, and I wonder how many. Two days before I got ill, I drove to Fenton for my final appointments and groceries." When Tricia uttered an exasperated sigh, Skye ignored it and told Tricia everything she'd learned at the hospital, and her frightening experience on the street outside her office.

"Oh, Skye! I can't believe what happened! You should've called us."

"Well, I got home fine, and when I got sick, there was nothing to do. I didn't want you or Tom to come over here and become exposed," Skye said. "Please understand that I couldn't have that on me."

"No more going into the city! Ya hear me?" Tricia scolded Skye. "And I'm sending Tom around to make sure you're okay."

"I totally agree! No more Fenton for me. It's a whole different place right now." Skye shuddered as she remembered the empty buildings, and the streets deserted of almost everyone but the Infected. "And it isn't necessary, but it would be nice to see Tom." Skye asked Tricia how some of their friends in town were doing before inquiring if she had any news of Jesse.

Tricia reluctantly spoke. "Well, that's one thing I called about. Mom saw him the other day roamin the woods at her place. She tried to get him to sit a spell and have some pie, but he wouldn't. Wouldn't even get up close to her, she said. It's not like him. Not with them, it's not. She saw marks though. Near as she could tell, Frankie's been beatin on him pretty hard."

Skye felt the color drain from her face, and she drew her lip between her teeth. She sank onto the marble countertop, propping her elbows on it and scraping her hair back with one hand.

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