The Reburialists by J C Nelson

Author:J C Nelson [Nelson, J C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780425278192
Publisher: Ace
Published: 2016-02-26T05:00:00+00:00

GRACE

The building shook, and a roar like a fighter jet broke all the windows, throwing me to the ground. Outside the windows, black smoke billowed. Brynner got to his feet first, sprinting to a broken window to look down. “Are you okay? Building’s on fire. Let’s get you out of here.”

“I’ll live.” I ran to my room, grabbed the bag with Heinrich’s journals, and followed him down a stairwell. Screams and shouts of chaos filled the dark, until Brynner kicked a door open, letting blinding sun in. “Get out.” With strong hands he forced me out, guiding a stream of patients behind him.

To the south, the front of the building lay in smoking ruins. I choked on the acrid black smoke and the reek of natural gas.

“Get them away from the doors, send them as far out into the field as possible.” Brynner squinted, looking out into the field. Bodies lay scattered like leaves blown by the wind.

Bodies that now moved, rising to their feet. They pivoted toward the exit door, and lurched forward, barely moving. These weren’t like the ones at the farm. Their motions seemed dull, their gaze unfocused.

“You deal with these. They’ll be easy kills for the time being. I’m going to go take care of the ones inside.”

I looked over to him. “I thought you said co-orgs couldn’t get past the barriers in this place.”

Brynner shook his head. “Barriers can be blown up, if one managed to get inside. After that blast, I doubt any of the barriers are intact.”

The corpses stumbled in our direction, slack mouths open wide. Brynner drew his daggers and sprinted for them, burying his daggers in one after the other, but the wisps of smoke that came up looked more like steam than the clouds of darkness from the ones I’d seen before. He ran back to me, reaching into the bag. “Take this.”

He handed me the box of chocolate-covered scorpions.

Which felt quite heavy. I threw the box top off and found a Deliverator inside.

“They’re all special rounds.” Brynner took my hand for a moment, looking straight into my eyes. “Make sure if you point it at someone, they’re already dead. Otherwise, you’ll have to shoot twice. Once to kill them, once to keep them that way.”

As he pushed into the stream of frightened people leaving the building, I shouted, “Where are you going?”

“The nursery is on the second floor.” He pointed to the field. “Guide the evacuation, move everyone away from the building, and keep them safe. I’m going to make sure the nurses can get everyone out.” He disappeared, using sheer strength to swim upstream in the frantic crowd.

“Move,” I yelled, forcing myself to stand tall and act braver than I felt. “Move in a line, no shoving, no pushing. Proceed to the far end of the parking lot as fast as you safely can.”

After what seemed like an eternity, the gush of people in the emergency exit slowed, and my first nurse appeared, holding two babies in a sling and one in each arm.

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