The Dead Series (Book 4): Dead End by Schafer Jon

Author:Schafer, Jon [Schafer, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: zombies
Publisher: Self
Published: 2014-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Fort Redoubt:

Steve woke to a persistent sound of something knocking on wood. At first, his groggy mind thought it was a woodpecker and he reached out for a shoe to throw at it. Feeling something in front of him, he opened his eyes, but all he could see was his hand pressed against a rough framed wall inches from his face. For a few seconds, he wasn’t sure where he was, but then it all came flooding back to him.

Rolling over, he saw that Heather had gotten up to answer the door and was having a conversation with Rick. They were keeping their voices down, so he said, “I’m awake.”

Rick looked at him and said, “Good deal. Time to get up. I was going to have my aide wake you, but I wanted to talk to you two in private for a few minutes. Get dressed, and I’ll meet you out front.”

When Rick was gone, Steve threw back the blanket covering him and sat up. Looking at where he had thrown his clothes in a pile the night before, he knew that there was no way he was going to wear them again today. He’d had them on since the morning they left Happy Hallow, and he could smell them from here.

“I wonder if they have a Laundromat?” he asked aloud.

Heather laughed and said, “They just might. I was shocked that they had hot water.”

“Yeah,” Steve replied while he rubbed his hands over his face to wake up, “Gerald told me that they put a bunch of solar heating tubes on the roof. You know, the ones they use to heat pools. He said that as soon as things settle down a little more, they’re going to start taking solar panels from houses and wiring them up to provide electricity. A few of the houses already have them, but he said that Rick wants all of them set up by the beginning of next winter.”

“I guess that will be the only way to get electricity for a long time,” Heather commented.

Pulling on his pants, Steve asked, “Did Rick give you any idea what he wanted?”

Heather shook her head and replied, “He just said he wanted to talk to us. It didn’t seem like it was bad news or anything from the way he was acting.”

“Well, I could use some good news,” Steve told her.

Walking out of the officer’s quarters, they found that a heavy fog had rolled in overnight, making it almost impossible to see as far as the walls of the fort. Rick was talking to one of his officers, but he broke off the conversation as soon as he spotted them and motioned for them to follow him. When Steve and Heather had fallen in on either side of him, he said, “I’ve actually got a couple things to talk to you about. The first is that I want you to know that your friend Tick-Tock made his own decision to join us. I had nothing to do with it.

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