The Heinous Crimes of Sara Slick Boxed Set: Escape the Deep, Kill the Wild, Fight the Peace, Invade the Heights by ST Branton & CM Raymond & LE Barbant

Author:ST Branton & CM Raymond & LE Barbant [Branton, ST]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2020-11-24T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Eight

The town ran behind us in a solid group. Despite everything that happened before, Cale was now stepping up, using his voice and his talent for convincing people to get them to move quickly to the access tunnels. They were low to the ground, and water had already started to wash over the area in tiny streams. Those streams would get bigger soon. Then the dam would burst and turn it into a river. We needed to move quickly to get everyone in before it happened.

The tunnel was wide enough for several people to fit through at a time, and Cale led the smaller and weaker of the group, humans and dryad alike, deeper into the tunnel first. The rest of us noticed the sandbags laid out along the sides and began stacking them in one long low wall across the opening. A shelf nailed to the wall held lanterns and oil sitting next to each other. I lit a few to give us enough light to see and passed some up the tunnel to those who were waiting farther in.

“Lanterns?” Ally asked mockingly.

“The lights went out with the damage to the dam,” Cale said from behind her. “All the electricity in the town is out because of it, I suspect, outside of anyone who has a backup generator.”

“Not that it will matter much soon,” one of the townspeople muttered.

“Look, our people have been mining here for generations.” Cale addressed the huddled group who were working feverishly to lay the bags down fast enough. “If there is one thing we know how to do, it’s work a damn mine. Even when the lights go out. Come on, everybody, grab a lantern and get to work!”

Cale made his way back down toward us and immediately jumped in to help lay the bags down, at least twenty feet away from the tunnel’s entrance. Ally and a few of the mothers were still on their way back with a couple of the men. They’d left to gather all the children and were still making their way from the town. As soon as I saw them crossing the last section of the access road leading to the tunnel, I ran out, leaving Cale in charge of the group. Akker worked side by side with him as I ran to help get the children inside. Most of the children were across the small stream, which had grown and was now flowing when I heard a loud sound come from the direction of the dam.

“Oh no, the dam. It’s breaking right now. Everybody inside,” I shouted.

There was a hurried panic to get us all in, but soon all of the children were beyond the sandbags, and Ally brought up the rear with Qulma. We ran into the tunnel together, going past the sandbags and closer to the area where it climbed into the mountain. Once I got inside, I noticed that not only had Cale and Akker created the entire layer of sandbags, but they’d already placed dynamite on the edges of the tunnel.

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