The Road North by Rush Jarrett

Author:Rush, Jarrett [Rush, Jarrett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian | Infected
Publisher: Six to One Books and Media
Published: 2018-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

FIVE

I knock three times on the door to apartment 18, then I wait. I hear Willie’s voice from behind the door. I hear other voices I don’t recognize, so I know there are people in there. I raise my hand to knock again, and I hear someone fiddling with locks. One lock releases. Then a second and a third. One final lock, then the door opens.

A young kid is on the other side, maybe older than Caroline, but maybe not. Dirt is on his cheeks, and a thin moustache is on his upper lip.

He looks me up and down. “Help you?” he asks.

“Willie told me to come by.”

From somewhere on the other side of the door: “He’s fine, John. Let him in.”

The kid opens the door wide enough for me to step inside. All of the furniture is pushed against the walls leaving the middle of the room open. A half dozen guys are all standing in a semicircle watching another guy draw something on the wall. I step closer, and it’s not just a wall. It’s a map. An X marks the location of our camp.

The major landmarks are all drawn in marker. Roads, large structures, creeks, large groves of trees. Everything else is in pencil. It must cover miles in every direction, and it’s incredibly detailed, at least for a hand done map. There are two other Xs on the wall. One is near the ceiling. It’s a larger X than the one used to indicate our camp. I don’t know if size of the X is equivalent to the size of the camp, but the second X near the floor is about the same size as ours.

Willie pulls the paper with the notes he’d taken earlier in the day from his pocket and studies what’s there.

“It was a little south of there.” Willie tells the guy at the wall. “Not as far north as the hatchery.”

The guy drops his pencil down a few inches and waits for Willie’s OK. Willie nods and the guy makes a circle.

“I counted 10, and they were coming from the northwest headed southeast. So one of your diagonal arrows showing that.”

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