The Forgotten Kings (The Scourge Book 4) by Phil Maxey

Author:Phil Maxey [Maxey, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-02T22:00:00+00:00

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Joel looked up the staircase which rose to a point of light three floors above. The general led the way, moving quickly up the steps.

“There’s an elevator but there are better things to use our power on,” she shouted back down.

Through each stairwell exit he passed, he could see a large open plan office area on the other side, filled with men and women in uniform sitting at desks, lit by candles.

He and Carla finally reached the top and emerged into a hallway, with a number of doors branching from it.

Soldiers saluted the general as she passed by them. Joel and Carla followed her into a large office. Joel noticed screw holes on the outside for a removed name plaque. Just below it, someone had written, ‘General Galloway’s office.’

“Take a seat,” said Galloway.

The room was a corner office and would have had good views of the northeast if it had been daytime.

Joel and Carla sat in two of the three old chairs which creaked. The general's desk was sparse except for a few small piles of A4-sized folders. She sat and then reclined slightly in her more comfortable chair.

“Captain Pachmayer gave me the bullet point version of how you two and your friends ended up in my camp. I want you to give me the complete version, and then sometime after you have rested I want you to give it again to one of my officers.”

“Of course, ma’am,” said Carla. Joel looked at her. He had not seen the lieutenant so eager to please before. He also noticed something else in her expression. Hope.

Carla went to tell her story, but the general stopped her and asked Joel to go first. Twenty or so minutes later both had recited their tales. Joel described everything including the tablets, Jasper, and what he had learned from his time at the mountain. He was too tired to do anything else.

“And you still have this tablet?”

“The scientists have it.”

“But it’s no longer working?”

“It doesn’t seem so.”

“Hmm… and I thought we had an adventure getting down here and surviving. What you just told me tops that… and…” The general sighed, and she slid her hand over her face.

It was the first time since Joel had met her, that he noticed her age. He guessed she was mid-sixties, but her hybrid metabolism had given her the energy of someone half that.

“I knew nothing about any tablets. What was happening in Colorado was kept from us, but we were in contact with the compound until it went dark. We presumed the corporation had gotten to them.”

“How did you learn of them?” said Joel.

“Through our contacts with other camps. At first, we thought it was other branches of the military that were still operating and were helping these people, but then one by one the camps also went dark. Finally, we got a message from the camp a few hundred miles north of here—”

“We saw it…”

The general sat forward. “You saw it? What happened?”

“We didn’t really see any townspeople, just lots of the corporation's hardware.

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