The Fortifier : Book One by D.K. Landtroop

Author:D.K. Landtroop [Landtroop, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-11-16T16:00:00+00:00

Day Fourteen

Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I went to the dining hall and had breakfast. Not many had come down yet, but then again no one here had crossed human thresholds and needed as little sleep as I did. Eileen and a couple of volunteers manned the kitchen preparing enough food for everyone. Eileen had run hospital kitchens and knew both how to cook for a lot of people and what we’d all need in our daily diet. Slipping into the kitchen, I grabbed a biscuit and gave everyone a good morning as I leaned against the massive fridge instead of sitting alone in the dining hall.

As she cooked, Eileen told me about meeting Ben back when he was still a cop. He had been grabbing food from her cafeteria while on a perp watch at the hospital. It seems our dear Ben became a cop at age twenty-one, and after twenty years on the force and meeting sweet Eileen he took early retirement and trained to be an EMT. They had been married twenty-seven years now and never had kids. She told me how much they both had regretted that until the apocalypse. Something in my face seemed to give her pause, and she stopped cooking, walked over and patted me on the shoulder. “I would hug you William, but I think it would kill you right now if I did. I hope one day I can give you that hug.” Tears forming in her eyes, she went back to cooking, and I went and ate my food alone.

Two hours later and my team and I were out the door. Joseph, being level seven and close to reaching level eight, offered to take a second group of the lowest levels and went to do the faunfir bait and switch we did to get him his first levels. He planned to have them use spears and others have their guns at the ready staying in the aversion zone. Thinking it was a good idea, I gave my endorsement. He could handle a faunfir one-on-one by himself and if anything tougher showed up they would run back inside the walls.

Ben and Tomas joined me, both saying I needed more people watching my back. This time Ben had an actual crossbow and would tell me nothing but “wait and see.” Meanwhile, Tomas was packing his spear and a twelve-gauge filled with slugs on a back holster he said was for “Close encounters.” The rest of my eight-person team had rifles with straps on their backs and spears at the ready. We had spent the first hour this morning running through basic thrusts and coordination with your teammates. I needed this row of buildings done today to stay on my self-imposed schedule.

The first building had been one of the first major banks in the area. Standing several stories tall, it was now an annex of the courthouse and stood out as much as its more modern replacement that I had almost gleefully leveled days ago.

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