Stone Rider by Hofmeyr David

Author:Hofmeyr, David [Hofmeyr, David]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2015-07-14T07:00:00+00:00

They come to a stop.

The Rider doesn’t move.

A girl. Her helmet is gone. Her neck is twisted. A stream of dried blood comes from the corner of her mouth, open in the rictus of a death leer, as if expressing disgust at something she’s seen. Adam dismounts and places himself behind the Rider. He crouches low, in her line of sight.

Whatever was there is long gone.

Adam places two fingers to the girl’s wrist. No pulse. The skin is warm.

“It sickens me,” he says, rising.

“It is what it is,” Kane says, still seated on his Drifter.

Adam turns to him. “You feel nothin?”

Kane shrugs. “S’pose you want her buried too?”

Adam shakes his head. “I’m done laying people in the dirt.”

—

They stand on a rise and survey Camp One, helmets under their arms, mopping the sweat on their brows. They came upon the camp quite suddenly—over a rise and into a sandy valley.

It’s deserted. All that remain are flagpoles and their bits of colored cloth, flapping in the weak breeze, and the carnage of byke gear and empty enviro-tents—built to withstand extreme temperatures. The ground is littered with trash, a network of crisscrossing tire tracks and the ash of several fires.

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