The Dead Saga: Odium 0.5 (Nina's Story) by Riley Claire C

Author:Riley, Claire C. [Riley, Claire C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2015-12-05T05:00:00+00:00

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In my dreams I still see him—Ben. His wide smile. His deep blue eyes. The warmth of his hand in mine, his breath on my neck…

But those dreams are always shattered by the sound of his screams. Of the blood spilling from his lips. Of the feeling of the truck going over his head and the crunch of his skull under the tire…

I sit upright with a gasp, my hand automatically going to my chest as I pant in and out, in and out. The room is dark. The sound of people sleeping all around me. It’s peaceful, or it should be. But Ben’s screams still echo in my head. I push myself off the filthy mattress and stand on shaky legs, making my way slowly to the door and pushing it open.

Air. I need air.

The room is stifling and clammy, the oxygen not seeming to make it down my throat and into my lungs. I stumble out of the room, the air instantly cooling my skin, but it still doesn’t feel like enough. I still need more, so I let the door fall shut behind me and take a couple of steps forward into the darkness, further away from my housing.

The air is thick and unmoving, and even from this distance, the stench of the pigs hangs in the air. I turn, walking in the opposite direction, away from the grunts of them and toward the back end of the complex.

I follow my own path by the light of the moon, avoiding the guards like the damned plague whenever I hear them getting close. Civilians are not permitted out of their rooms at night in case they are mistaken for deaders. I get that, I understand it, but right now I don’t care.

I just need space and air and the illusion of choice and freewill.

Even though I know it’s all a lie.

At the far end of the complex, I find myself a dark corner behind one of the smaller tents. I’m pretty sure it holds the belongings of most of the civilians—things they’d had with them when they first arrived. Everyone was forced to hand over anything that might be useful for making this place successful. Or at least that’s what they had told us at the time.

Things are becoming clearer now.

We aren’t free; we are so very far from it. And it seems that we might never be free again. If the government has fallen, that means no help was coming, that this is truly it. So far the complex had been run with the belief that things would eventually get better, that it was temporary, but that isn’t true anymore.

The sinking feeling in my stomach gets worse.

It will only end one way, and for the civilians, that will be badly.

I pull my knees up to my chest and suck in slow breaths. I have to pull myself together. I fucking have to. I can’t be the selfish woman that I’ve been for the past year. I have to help these people.

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