Sector 27: Assignment by JJ Pasinella

Author:JJ Pasinella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: scifiadventureactionmysterydystopiacouragesuspensebraveryfun

3.1 (Resistance)

"Alice …? Alice," Caleb said, gently shaking her by the shoulder. "Wake up. We need to get moving."

"Ungh," she grunted. Slowly, she sat up, rubbing her eyes. "Is it morning already?"

"Yes. It has been for a while now, but I didn't want to wake you up earlier," Caleb said, smiling at her. "I think we should probably start making our way into the forest while we have a full day left ahead of us."

Caleb swung open the bottom door of the van, which was laying on its side. A burst of sunlight poured in like rushing water. Alice squinted her eyes momentarily, letting her eyes adjust, and then began to wiggle herself forward, feet first. Once she had gotten outside, Caleb pushed the shotgun out onto the street. Then he crawled out, picked it up, and the two of them stood surveying the road and forests on either side.

"Do you know what we're supposed to be looking for?" Alice asked, brushing the dirt from her pants.

Caleb peered into the forest, which was in the opposite direction from where they had come. "Your father told me that Patrick found a long brick building with a lot of windows lining it."

"Ok." Alice stretched out her arms over her head and let out a great big yawn. "Ready when you are," she said, smiling. It seemed as if she had forgotten about the events of the previous day.

"Are you sure you're alright, Alice?" Caleb asked.

She became more serious, and answered, “I’m okay. I’m just … still trying to put the horrible things that happened yesterday out of my mind.”

Caleb put his hand on Alice’s shoulder to comfort her. She wiped her eyes with her shirtsleeve, straightened herself up and said, “We just have to keep moving now. There's nothing else we can do."

"Let’s get moving then,” Caleb said.

At that, they began to make their way toward the tree line and disappeared into the woods. Caleb kept a close eye on the sun as it moved from a position behind them, to eventually hovering directly overhead. He wanted to make sure they were moving in as straight a line as possible. After several miles of walking, the two of them came to a valley. Down at the bottom was a small, gently flowing stream. "Look down there!" Alice whispered, grabbing Caleb's arm.

Caleb turned and looked down the steep slope below. "Wow. I wonder if that's from the same stream that was near the cabin."

Alice took a few steps closer to the edge and said, "Let's go down really quick. We could use a drink, Caleb,” she said with pleading in her eyes. “We've been walking for a while now."

Caleb walked to her side, looked down and then checked for a slope that wasn't as steep. As he surveyed from left to right, his eye caught something across the valley, on top of the hill across from where they stood. "Alice, look!"

Directly across from them, they saw a brick building beyond a thin layer of trees.

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