The Red X by Robert P. Sullivan

Author:Robert P. Sullivan [Sullivan, Robert P.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2015-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

After we ate Gale and I walked out into the woods, it was nice to be back in the forest again, I mean I never really left, but it’s different when you just stay in the same part for a long time, you get used to it. She led me out a good couple miles to an old shooting range built in the backwoods and said “My friend Mr. Gray used to own this place. He built it to be a spot where no one from town could hear him shooting, because some of his neighbors were getting pissed off.” She set the guns down on an old table. “Ok Jake, here take a bow.”

I grabbed it from her hand, but was a little confused and asked “Ok, but why not use the guns?”

“Because the sound from a gun carries a long way, and do you really want to drag those ‘X’ bastards all the way out here if they hear us?” I knew she had a good point there, but the whole reason we came out there was so that you couldn’t hear the guns from town. “Don’t worry, you going to shoot the guns off today too, but let’s do that last. I really want you to get good with a bow. Think about it, they don’t make a lot of sound, and so they won’t attract a lot of attention. If you have to use a gun then do it, but if you don’t have to, then a bow is better.”

I started to pull back on the string, but stopped. “Wait, the first thing you did was shoot a gun at me.”

“Yeah, but I knew it didn’t matter then. See, I didn’t know if you had a gun or not, and either way you were going to be able to call for help, so I might as well have used the gun.” I nodded and went back to what I was doing. “No, you have your stance all wrong, here let me show you.”

She took her bow in hand and fed an arrow down to the nock. Her stance was perfect, it was something she had been doing for a long time, and it showed. “See, you want to extend the arm that’s holding it far from your body, but don’t overextend it, or it will bite you.”

I tried to mimic her stance, but I’m sure it wasn’t anywhere close. “Oh, like this?” I asked.

She flashed a slight grin and said “Close enough.” When I let loose an arrow for the first time it veered off course, and the string snapped hitting the inside of my elbow, leaving a huge red mark. “See what I meant by over extending it?” she said laughing at me. That was a perfect example of the kind of person she was too. She would teach you what you need to know, but would let you learn you lessons the hard way.

I did manage to get a few arrows in the target by the end of the day, but it was not something that I was good at by any means.

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