The Baying of Wolves by J. Thorn & Glynn James

Author:J. Thorn & Glynn James [Thorn, J. & James, Glynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Element 12 Ltd
Published: 2017-04-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

The area outside the underground hall was thickly overgrown with ivy and bushes. Decades of unchecked growth had led to nature spreading its tendrils and covering everything in its path. Broken walls could barely be seen through the thick mat of leaves and vines, and the ground was almost entirely covered with a dense carpet.

Seren made her way cautiously across the large open space, treading between the gaps and sometimes scrambling over the mounds of green foliage that almost completely hid what was underneath. But she could see in places that there was broken concrete under her feet and even some of the black rock that the ancient’s roads had been constructed with, but it would ever see the sun again.

She looked back at the building she had hurriedly left behind and saw that the puzzling, thin gap that had lined the bottom of the one wall—allowing the only a dim strip of light into the interior—was the bottom of a row of huge, metal doors. There were a dozen of them in a line, and each massive door was thirty feet across and of equal height. Rust covered the dull surface, and entire sections had fallen away, but the metal seemed to be thick enough that not many holes had developed. The entrances were separated by cracked and crumbling concrete pillars. Rebar jutted out where some of the pillars had started to collapse.

In the center of the huge clearing between the buildings, another of the large metal vehicles stood, but this one was in a much worse condition than those hidden away in the darkness, protected from the elements. It sat there, abandoned and forgotten, just outside one of the great doors, facing toward the building as though it was still waiting to be let in, after all these years.

Seren hadn’t been able to see the true size and shape of the vehicles while she was inside the building; it had been too dark. Now she could clearly make out the shape, though it wasn’t like any type of rusted cart she had ever seen. She carefully picked her way through the undergrowth, making her way over to it, and found that it was on unobstructed ground. She walked around it, then walked around it again, puzzled at its shape.

The large, metal monstrosity had many wheels, it seemed. Dozens of them lined both sides and yet none of them touched the ground. Both rows of wheels were wrapped in a metal cover that was constructed of many interlocking pieces, although quite a number had fallen away. A large dome rose from the flat top of the vehicle’s body, out of which poked a barrel of metal not unlike the ones on the Remington that she carried, except this one was vast in comparison. Twenty feet or more of metal pipe jutted out from the head of the vehicle, pointing toward the main building but angled toward the sky.

Some sort of massive weapon, Seren thought, trying not to think what damage such a thing could do if a handheld one could take a man’s head off.

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