The Dead Walk The Earth (Book 3) by Duffy Luke

Author:Duffy, Luke [Duffy, Luke]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2015-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

14

They had all been assembled and ready to move for quite some time, waiting with coiled nerves and growing apprehension. Hardly a word was spoken as Taff and the others prepared themselves to flee from the island. Everything was ready, and now they sat and waited, watching the night sky and willing the dawn to arrive. The atmosphere was tense, and everyone was lost in their own thoughts as the time drew nearer. Nobody wanted to think beyond the next few hours. Anything could happen in that short space of time, and the entire plan could come to a crashing halt from any one of the numerous and ruinous scenarios.

It was always possible that Stan and Bull could be discovered at the airfield. The helicopter could be shot down on take-off, or the anti-aircraft defences aboard the HMS Illustrious could blow them all out of the sky before they had even made it a kilometre from the island. The list of possibilities was endless and the majority of them were out of the hands of the people who would be nothing more than passengers aboard the aircraft. Their fate was going to be placed entirely in the hands of the pilots, and all of them hoped more than anything that Samantha had chosen their ride with care. If they made it to the mainland in one piece, they would face an entirely new set of potential disasters.

“What time is it?”

“Bobby, you asked me that same question five minutes ago. Now take a wild guess on what the time is now,” Taff snapped back at him in a hushed growl. “Go on. I bet you can’t work it out without having to take your boots off and using your toes to help you count.”

“Piss off. You’re waffling shit,” Bobby spat back at him. “That was hours ago. Your watch must be knackered.”

They were all anxious and keen to get started, to get on with the mission and have it all over and done with. Hardly any of them had been able to sleep, and the night had seemed to last forever with the minutes seemingly rolling backwards. Those who did manage to nod off were soon awakened with a start as their troubled and fretful dreams snapped them back to the real world. Most of them had given up, annoyed at the slightest noise or movement dragging them from their slumber. The only people who seemed capable of getting any rest were William and Richard. The pair of them lay curled up on the old couch, snoring loudly and seemingly without a care in the world.

Taff and Bobby were supposed to be the ones on sentry duty, but many of the others had joined them, taking up their own positions and waiting for the day to get underway. They sat staring into the darkness, shivering against the cold wind, and listening to the distant, ghostly moans of the infected as they traversed the island through the blackness. The survivors stayed at their posts, haunted by the unseen dead, and clutching their rifles close.

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