The King of Clayfield - 01 by Shane Gregory

Author:Shane Gregory
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: brainofshane
Published: 2011-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

We all moved into the living room. The kerosene heater was doing a good job of warming the room, but not the whole house.

"Why don't we stay here," Jen said.

"Well, yeah," I said. "I don't want to go out in the dark."

"No," she said, "not just for the night, but for a while. It's a nice little house. There's a woodstove in the basement. I didn't start a fire, because the kerosene was quicker, but it looks like the vents in the floor open to the basement, so it ought to heat the whole house."

"I like it here, too," Sara said.

"I don't like how it's enclosed by woods," I said. "We need to be able to see something coming from far away."

"True," Jen said. "But I don't think Blaine's is ideal for a long stay. It just isn't comfortable; we'll be crammed in that little shop. If this is going to be a while, then we should try to make ourselves as comfortable as we can."

I nodded.

Sara got up and went down the hall to the bathroom. When she'd shut the door, Jen grinned.

"I mixed some of that sweet white wine with her apple juice. She never knew."

If Jen had done that to Sara the week before, it would have been appalling, but a lot had changed in the last week.

I shrugged, "Whatever works."

When Sara returned, we both smiled innocently. She smiled back, sat down, and continued to nurse her merlot.

"I don't want to go into town any more than we have to," Jen said. "I need time to rest and process this shit. It's just too much to have to deal with everyday. They're out here, too, but there aren't as many of them. I think we should make a list of things we might need, then go in and collect it in a single day if we can."

"Are we going to look for other survivors? Are we going to meet up with Mr. Somerville again?" Sara asked.

"I don't know if I have it in me to search the town for survivors every day," Jen said. "Somerville would probably need some help, though. I'm sure he'd take you in if you want to stay with him."

"I kind of like being with you two," she said. "You're closer to my age."

"I appreciate that, hon, but I don't feel that young."

"We could live almost anywhere," I said. "There will be more free houses than occupied houses. If it weren't for all the infected people walking around, it would be an exciting prospect--living however we want to. The truth is we can't live however we want to. We have to live carefully, even more carefully than we did before."

"We can still have a comfortable and relatively safe place to come home to, can't we? We could store up some stuff so we don't have to get out there any more than necessary, right?"

"Sure," I said. "But there are more like us out there, and I think it is important to connect with them if we can.

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