Stage 6 by James Dylan

Author:James, Dylan [James, Dylan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dylan James
Published: 2013-08-24T07:00:00+00:00

Day 9

I awoke with a start, as Steve shook me and said, “Jack! It’s the afternoon! We were fools to sleep this long!”

I looked around groggily to see everybody else just now waking up as well, and I asked, “Well what’s wrong with that? Nothing happened did it?”

He shook his head and said, “No but that’s not the point. We didn’t even set an alarm! Have we learned nothing from all that has happened??”

I replied, “We were all just very tired Steve, it won’t happen again.” I said to the group, in a louder voice, “So are we ready to escape Texas!?”

There were cheers and Steve excused himself to grab some milk and supplies from the convenience store. He came back out, hopped in the trunk with the stuff, and I turned the car onto the road and took off. We followed the main road around the Grasslands, and it was unnerving to imagine all the Infected animals and such peering out at us from the hidden forest. We came across a deer once, which stared us down from the middle of the road. Obviously in the grips of the Infection, it pawed the ground looking at us as I drove very slowly around it. It wasn’t long before we saw the signs of the containment up ahead, with small make-shift buildings and various assorted barbed wire and other tools of containment spread out for as far as the eye could see. There were even machine gun turrets at some places.

I slowed the car to a stop and asked, “Well guys, what’s the plan?”

Steve answered immediately, “There’s no way we’re going to be able to get through on a main road like this. The best bet we have is going off onto the gravel a ways to the left, and try and get between any main roads. They’ll probably only have a few guys set up there. But something I’ve been thinking about, these aren’t Infected. Are we prepared to kill, to murder the human guards to get past them? Opening up the way for Infected to get into the rest of the Country?”

We were all still, as the implications of what Steve said hit us. I hadn’t thought about that, I always assumed we just had to make it here and sneak past somehow.

I turned the car off the road and said, “Well first let’s see if we have to make that decision. If it comes down to it though, I don’t know.”

I drove in silence for a while, going over the bumps in the dirt and shaking the car around extracting little “mmpphs” of pain from the injured in our car. I tried to drive as gentle as possible, but after all I was driving across hills at some points. Consulting the map somebody found under one of the seats, we managed to aim straight at the border to Oklahoma. I stopped, and turned in my seat to face the group.

I said, “The guards have no doubt been told to shoot anything on sight.

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