The Lazarus Strain Chronicles (Book 5): The Last by Deville Sean

Author:Deville, Sean [Deville, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2020-02-16T05:00:00+00:00

27.08.19

The Desert

Despite the noise and the motion caused by the APC, the exhaustion got the better of her. Jessica drifted off only to arrive in the place that was now all too familiar. The desert no longer held any fear for her, but it did for everyone else here.

Having battled and beaten Susan, this realm was now different somehow. Although the suns were roasting hot, her skin didn’t burn instantly. Prior to defeating Susan in their epic confrontation, every visit here had seen her skin crisp and char afresh, the heat baking her from the outside in. Standing here, she looked down at the flesh of her arm, expecting it to rapidly begin its corrosion.

It didn’t.

The clothes also remained untouched. Normally it would take less than a minute for the cloth and her shoes to be reduced to ash, but for reasons beyond the power of her understanding, her attire also resisted the abuse that the desert inflicted. The air still felt exquisitely uncomfortable to breathe, like a sauna on maximum. Beads of sweat rapidly ran down her back and from her forehead only to evaporate in the arid breeze. Some of it ran into her eyes, telling her that she wasn’t quite as resistant as she suspected she was. Wiping it away only allowed more to flow, her sight disrupted by the salt that stung sharper than it should have. This place was heat upon heat.

She wasn’t alone, either. Her shadow form had stayed in place, the need to escape no longer required. Jessica was not surprised to see the dozens of her kind surrounding her, their forms as broken and wrecked as she would have expected her own. The immune circled her, not in any kind of threat, but more out of reverence. She had spared them the worst of it, and their thoughts filled her mind, mingling with her own. For the first time in her life, Jessica found she had become a leader, a force for good in the greatest battle mankind had ever fought.

“Thank you.”

“You saved us.”

“Help me!”

“Tell me why?”

There were cries of thanks, demands for answers, pointless pleas that could never be met. Some people wept openly from eyes that could barely see, others kept themselves reserved, perhaps not believing the threat represented by the Horsemen was truly gone. Then came the plea that she never would have expected.

“Heal me.”

“I cannot,” Jessica heard herself say. Surely she did not have that power, surely there were limits to what she could do here? Looking again down at her bare wrist, she saw the skin finally reddening. So she was still susceptible to this harshest of environments, it just took longer now. She could hold off the impact more than most, but given time, Jessica suspected she would be reduced to the charred and withered forms that held her in such awe.

As if to prove this, the cloth covering her arm began to smoulder. Soon she would be reduced to her nakedness, standing before all these desperate people.

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