The Ashes of Pompeii by Sam Sisavath

Author:Sam Sisavath [Sisavath, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Road to Babylon Media LLC
Published: 2015-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

JOSH

“We almost had him,” Travis said. “Smiley said he might have even tagged him.”

Smiley? Right. The sniper.

Or as close to a sniper as he was going to get out here. Josh had to constantly remind himself that he wasn’t actually leading a group of soldiers. It took more than a nice polished uniform to turn some accountant or restaurant manager or, in Travis’s case, a construction supervisor, into a full-blooded killer.

Will and Danny would laugh at these guys.

“But he was too fast,” Travis was saying. “Lucky bastard somehow managed to do a U-turn in the channel and slipped back into the lake before the others could catch him.”

“So where is he now?” Josh asked.

“Back on the island’d be my guess.”

“Just one guy?”

“Just one guy.”

“I guess one more or less won’t matter.” Then, “Have you heard back from Mason?”

“Sonia didn’t say anything, so I’m guessing not. He’s probably still trying to deal with those other guys that popped out of nowhere and laid waste to his group back at Route 13.”

“The Dunbar people.”

“Yeah.”

“I thought we killed everyone in that city.”

“That’s what Mason thought, too. But apparently not. It’s funny…”

Funny? Nothing about this is funny, Travis, Josh thought, but he said, “What’s that?”

“I think this is the first time I’ve heard of them not being able to finish a job.”

“First time for everything,” Josh said.

The “them” Travis was referring to were the blue-eyed ghouls. They had slaughtered almost everyone in Dunbar a few nights ago and took the women and children. Or, well, most of the ones that were still alive at the end of the night, anyway. Josh didn’t want to think about it too much. He accepted what the ghouls were, what they did, but it didn’t mean he wanted to dwell on it. As long as he wasn’t directly involved, it was easy to pretend it wasn’t actually happening.

“I don’t know what’s giving Mason so much trouble,” Travis said. “He’s got what, thirty or forty people with him?”

“Something like that.”

“He should have had them by now. They were right there for the taking.”

Mason.

The man was irritating. Or was that aggravating? Maybe both. The worse part of it was that Mason just didn’t care. Sometimes Josh wondered if he should bring it up with Kate during one of their talks. It would serve Mason right. What Josh needed were dependable men, not lazy ones that did whatever the hell they wanted.

Will and Danny could whip them into shape. Maybe I just don’t have what it takes. Or maybe some people just aren’t meant to be soldiers.

“I’ve been meaning to ask,” Travis said behind him.

“What’s that?” Josh said, even though he knew the question, because it always came up.

They were always so curious about how it worked. He couldn’t really blame them. Even now, after having gone through it dozens of times, it still freaked him out, though he would never admit it out loud. He had learned in those first few weeks that the only way to lead men was to make them fear your authority.

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