The Seventh Day (Book 2): The Last Hour by Brown Tara

Author:Brown, Tara [Brown, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Horror | Dystopian | Zombies
Published: 2017-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Lou!” My little sister, Joey, runs toward me as we walk up the hill to our cabin. She’s shoving our massive Irish wolfhound out of her way while he nudges her. “Furgus, don’t!” she shrieks.

Kyle snickers at the scene, the way he always does, but I manage to keep my laughing to the inside. Joey hates it when we laugh at them.

The massive dog likes to run with her, keeping her in check and in his view at all times. I don't know if he’s smart enough to get what’s going on, but I suspect he’s smarter than he’s given credit for. He’s different up here. Watchful in a way he never was before.

“Lou, did you hear? Men came from the city. It’s real!” Joey shouts a sentence I never imagined I’d hear from her lips. It isn’t just that I doubted the city was real, it’s that my little sister would know about it.

We’ve kept our discussions on the city, the infamous city, to a dull roar. No one knows what to believe. We’ve heard it all, not just the utopia but also this: Somewhere in North Dakota is the new capital city of the new United States which is now just a country called America. There are no states and no borders. Canada has become America. Mexico has become America. America covers all the land that once was North America. America has a ruler, a king. America is no longer a democracy. Martial law is enforced. The military is run by an evil government. The government is a bunch of lies and it’s still chaos out there. The world has ended and no one is running anything.

I don't know what to believe. We’ve heard so little and yet so much of it all.

The news changes frequently.

Some of it's the same.

The mail is up and running.

Electricity is up and running in certain places.

People with bite marks who lived through the process are supposed to turn themselves in. They get taken away and we never see them again.

I’ve hidden my bite, but I think I’m the only one left.

Mr. Milson’s friend with the pacemaker is gone.

The lady who had the leg bite is gone.

The man who got bit on the back is gone.

I had no idea there were so many of us until they got turned in.

No one knows about me, no one but my closest people. And in six months they haven’t turned me in, so I suspect they won’t.

I worry that I’m the last person like me alive. That if the government is taking the people like me away, they’re killing them. Or using them to clear cities and kill the undead who somehow lived through the self-destruction of the nanobots.

Or maybe the nanobots were never going to self-destruct and my dad didn't know as much as he thought he did.

Anything’s possible. Anything and nothing.

“The city is real. Mr. Milson’s friend—the man with the pacemaker—he’s back.” Joey’s smiling an excited gap-toothed grin. I’m nervous instantly.

“Back?”

“What do you mean ‘back’?” Kyle asks her.

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