The Tide_Dead Ashore by Anthony J Melchiorri

Author:Anthony J Melchiorri [Melchiorri, Anthony J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: zombies, apocalypse
Publisher: Thunderbird Media
Published: 2017-10-23T23:00:00+00:00

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Meredith raised her hands. “Don’t shoot. We were only trying to protect you.”

The men exchanged curious glances and said something she couldn’t understand. They had surrounded her and Andris with military precision, moving like a pride of lions circling wounded prey. They remained just out of reach but close enough that there was no question they would hit their targets if they fired.

But they hadn’t fired yet. That had to count for something.

Andris shifted, and the men rattled their rifles, yelling at him in Arabic.

“Everything okay up there?” Dom asked over the comm link.

“Not exactly,” Meredith said. She opened her mouth to say something more, but the men stabbed the air with their weapons. She didn’t know what they were saying, but the gesture was clear enough. One of the soldiers peeled away and returned a few minutes later with the boy she’d seen earlier.

“Who are you?” one of the Moroccans asked her in a thick accent. He had a bushy mustache, and a scar traced his cheek.

Meredith’s mind whirred. If these people were allied with Spitkovsky, she couldn’t mention her association with Dom or the Hunters. Depending on how clued in they were to the global conspiracy, they might even know the name Meredith Webb.

“We’re Americans,” Meredith said simply. “We’re on a mission.”

“American, you claim.” His eyes were narrowed. “Why you here?”

“To stop these monsters,” Meredith said, still unwilling to give too much away.

The man looked to the boy then. The boy spoke rapidly, apparently translating for him. The man replied, and the boy looked back up at Andris and Meredith.

“He means to ask why are you here, at our home? Why are you on our roof with guns?”

“We wanted to know if you were friendly or not,” Meredith said. “Are you?”

Another quick exchange, and then the boy replied, “We need to know how you got here. Why you are in our country.”

“I told you, we’re trying to stop those monsters. The ones that just tried to kill you. Feel free to say thank you, by the way.”

The boy and the man traded words again. The boy looked uncertain, but the man nodded vigorously and waved his arms at Meredith.

“He says we are not stupid. We need to know what you are doing here, and how you got here. More details. That will determine whether we are friends.”

The men looked to Andris for an answer, but he deferred to Meredith. His expression told her he wasn’t going to say a damn thing. He was leaving this to her judgment.

Ah, hell, Meredith thought, might as well tell them the truth. Either they were going to string her and Andris out to dry, or they might be sympathetic to the cause.

“We believe the men responsible for creating those monsters are planning something here in Tangier. We think they plan to release a second wave of the biological agent that turns people into those creatures, and we want to stop them. Their distribution operations may be headquartered in the port. We need to get there before they ship out these new weapons.

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