The Walls of Lemuria by Sam Sisavath

Author:Sam Sisavath
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Post-Apocalypse, thriller
Publisher: Road to Babylon Media
Published: 2014-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

“ARE YOU SURE?” Gavin asked.

“I’ve seen it happen in person,” Keo said. “It’s going to happen to him, too.”

“But he’s not dead yet.”

“Not yet.”

“He’s gonna be fine,” Levy said, though he didn’t look at them when he said it. Instead, he was staring out the window, where he had been standing for the last two hours.

“Earl’s a tough guy,” Bowe said. “The toughest guy I know. It was only a bite, anyway.”

I bet that’s what the billion other people on the planet said three nights ago, Keo thought, but he said instead, “It’s not a normal bite. The bleeding won’t stop and the victim gets worse with time. I don’t know how it works, or how fast it happens. Maybe it depends on how much they take out of you during the bite. Or put into you. I don’t know. I’m not a doctor or a scientist. I’m just telling you what I saw, and what I saw is that eventually you succumb.”

Keo stood across the window from Levy, both of them watching Rachel and Christine walking around the front yard while Norris rolled Lotte along in her wheelchair. What should have been a hopeful new day for them had become dour when they brought Earl back to the house. But the kids seemed to be handling it well, Christine in particular. Keo wondered if that was some kind of coping mechanism. Maybe. It wasn’t like he knew anything about kids.

Behind him, Gavin sat on the couch with a bottle of water, staring off at nothing while Bowe paced back and forth.

They all looked over when Gillian came out of Gavin’s room, where they had put Earl. She was cleaning blood off her fingers with a damp towel, and the look on her face confirmed everything to Keo.

“Is he okay?” Levy asked.

Both Gavin and Bowe waited anxiously for the answer, too.

“I’ve cleaned and treated the bite,” Gillian said, “but the rest of it… I don’t think we’ll know for sure until tonight.” Gillian walked to the kitchen where she poured water into a bowl and washed her hands with soap. Blood quickly muddied up the water, and that encouraged her to rub harder. “He lost a lot of blood,” Gillian continued. “I don’t even know how you lose that much blood from just a bite wound. And there’s something else. The area around the bite looks infected.”

“Infected?” Levy said.

“Look, I’m not a doctor. I’m not even a nurse.” She sighed, sounding exasperated and tired. “But from what I can tell, he’s got a fever, and the body only does that when it’s trying to fight an infection. We don’t know if this is how the virus works.” She looked at Keo. “You said it yourself. It’s like an invasion. How they multiplied so fast three nights ago. They bite you, you die…and you turn.”

“It’s efficient,” Keo said. “They don’t need a big army. They literally just create one as they go, until there’s no one left to resist.”

“You don’t know that,” Gavin said, springing up suddenly from the sofa.

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