Sloan: Outback Exodus Book 5 by Millen Dawn

Author:Millen, Dawn [Millen, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Twinny in a Tinny Publications
Published: 2015-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Three weeks of hard travel through the back country and I’ve not gotten close enough to deal with this gang. I arrived in Hilltown two hours after they left the tiny village in smoking ruins. Dead bodies lay around and there were many injured, beyond help in most cases. There were a few who were not around at the time the gang arrived and those few are now caring for the injured and the children who survived the attack. I stayed to help bury the dead and help with the worst injured, but the gang are getting further away from me, soon it was time to move on again.

The trail leads up into the hills where many ruined farms, dead bodies and burned out buildings to show the way the gang has passed. More often than not there are no survivors and the injuries are getting worse too. The gang are becoming unafraid. They are picking on small villages, isolated properties, the young and the old. Always the victims are those who are weaker than themselves and always those who cannot fight back.

What few survivors I can talk to tell similar tales. The gang usually arrive in the early morning or late afternoon. They come in and kill the men, rape the women, then steal anything of value. Children are beaten and left for dead animals are killed. Nothing is sacred, not the young, the old or the in-between. No one is safe. The more I see of this the more anger and hatred burns in my soul. I step up my efforts to catch up with them after I have given what aid I can in the places they have been.

I come back towards the coast again from Hilltown and stop at the township of Grey’s Hill. There are few people left in what was once a large service town for the local area. Many buildings have been washed away as the tsunami had travelled up the wide river which boarders the town. Those buildings which were situated on the hills forming the backdrop have tumbled down; even most of the hospital is gone from its perch on the highest hill. There is little left of the town to say it serviced the local farming areas and was the local gateway for tourism. Now it is a collection of ramshackle buildings, cobbled together huts and broken people. The gang have been through here twice from what I am told and the last time was only two days ago. They left heading northwards. I restock on what I can with food and supplies, trading my strength as I chop wood for an older ladies fire. She can now cook and I have fruit and vegetables and some fresh baked bread. After a few hours it is time for me to head off after the gang.

Stopping not far out of town to raid the fuel tanks of some of the wrecked vehicles along the side of the road I look around at the destruction the tsunami have inflicted on the flood plains here.

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