Sharpe End by James David Victor

Author:James David Victor [Victor, James David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2018-10-27T04:00:00+00:00

15

She hadn’t lied.

Raven made it over the low walls of about four different courtyards before they decided they were far enough down the street. She looked worse for wear by the time they got there, but she made it. Of course, Blake wasn’t stupid enough to say that, but he couldn’t stop from thinking it as he looked her over. He couldn’t stop himself from being concerned as well.

“I’m fine,” she said, panting softly as she lowered herself to a seat on one of the walls. He also noticed that she was answering a question he hadn’t actually asked, perhaps heading off his question and his concern.

“I can see that,” he said dryly, leaning back against the exterior wall and crossing his arms.

She glared at him, but her exhaustion dimmed its intensity. “My leg hurts, okay? Going over those little walls should have been easy, but the splint weighs a bit and the pain is transferring up to my hip.”

Blake frowned with concern, his feeling of discomfort growing the longer it went and the worse she got. He just wasn’t used to it. He knew that he had to step up and do better than he had been, for her sake, and that worried him.

What if he couldn’t? What if he just kept screwing stuff up?

“Rest for a few minutes,” he said. “We’re going to need to find some water soon. There must be water somewhere, if a human colony lived here. We just have to find it. I’m not sure if any of the appliances in these houses will put out water. I don’t recognize what most of them are.”

She was wiping sweat off her forehead. “Yeah, water would be…good.”

He looked over his shoulder at the open door behind him. “I’m going to look through the house, and maybe see if I can still spot Greyson from here. Why don’t you rest a bit longer while I check it out.”

It wasn’t hard to see her pride flash through her eyes. She didn’t want to have to do that, but her practicality won out and she just nodded.

Blake paused, feeling an urge to say something else, but he didn’t actually have a clue about what that was. He looked at her, and she looked at him. He waited to figure out what he wanted to say, and she waited to see if he was going to say anything.

“What, Blake?” she finally asked impatiently.

He shook himself. “Nothing,” he said, turning and walking into the house.

This one was different than the first house they had gone into. There seemed to be multiple smaller rooms filling the bottom floor, and there was an actual doorway with one of those press-pads like the cabinet had. He pressed the button and the door slid up into the ceiling, revealing stone stairs that led down.

The stairs seemed to descend straight into darkness, but after taking a couple of tentative steps, he saw there was a dim light below.

He pulled his gun. As far as he could

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