The Precipice - The Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Survival Series: No Sanctuary Series - Book 2 by Mike Kraus

Author:Mike Kraus [Kraus, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-06-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

“Look. I’m just saying that I don’t understand why these meth-heads are so obsessed with burning things down. First it was the house, now it’s the school.”

“I don’t know, Linda. Maybe it’s all the meth that’s made them slightly out of their gourd.”

Linda scowled at Frank and gave him a friendly shove. He shook his head and chuckled. The pair walked as quickly as Linda could manage down the hall deeper into the school. After the pronouncement from the person outside the school and the conversation with Perry that followed, Perry decided that they needed to go check on Caroline before deciding what to do.

Linda’s first instinct was to wage an all-out war on whoever was outside, but Frank managed to talk her down. There were too many people in the school and too many unknowns about who was outside for them to risk anyone’s lives during a fight. More than that, though, it was clear that Perry and Caroline were running the show and once Frank emphasized that to Linda she finally relented and agreed to go along with what they decided.

Perry was already far ahead of them as he jogged down the hallway and Frank had to restrain Linda to keep her from trying to run after him. Perry stopped and slowly pushed open the door to a classroom on the right-hand side of the hall. Linda and Frank entered a moment after him and walked up slowly behind to see what he was looking at.

On a table in the center of the room, beneath the glow of half a dozen flashlights duct-taped to a tall lamp, was the form of Caroline. She was lying on her stomach on the table, her breaths coming slowly and evenly despite the fact that the person standing over her had a pair of long metal tweezers that he was using to probe the wound in her shoulder.

“What’s the prognosis, doc?” Perry whispered and the man holding the tweezers glanced up at him.

“She’s pumped full of morphine and she may never be able to lift anything with her right arm again. But she’ll live.” He spoke softly as he worked, pulling out a sliver of metal and dropping it into a nearby pan a few seconds later.

“You sure you should be doing that?” Linda nodded at the tweezers. “Most of the time they leave the bullets in if they’re not in danger of causing more harm.”

“That’s very true.” The doctor nodded at Linda before going back to probing Caroline’s wound. “I am trying to give her the best possible chance at recovery though, and these loose pieces of metal rolling around near her tendons and bones in the shoulder make a full recovery somewhat less than likely.”

“Yeah, but—”

“Relax, Ms…”

“Just call me Linda.”

“Very well. Please relax, Linda.” The doctor said Linda’s name with a slight edge of discomfort, unused to calling anyone by their first name. “I’m only going after the largest pieces. The rest will be left alone and her body will deal with them.

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