The Ranch: Unity: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Story by Brian Quest

Author:Brian Quest
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-08-29T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Later that day, after everyone had had a few hours of sleep and got some breakfast in them, they all set out on horseback to see what carnage the raging fire had left behind. First they stopped at Emma’s cabin.

“Well, Emma, do you see anything out of place?” Thomas asked.

“No, no. It doesn’t look like it. That’s weird, I was sure I’d heard someone near the cabin.”

“Grandma, when you were outside, what direction did you hear the noises come from?”

“Oh, Daniel, I don’t know. I was too concerned about the fire.”

“Just think about it, Grandma. Try.”

Emma pointed east and said, “That way, in the trees over there. I’m nearly deaf in my right ear, so they must have come from that way.”

Andrew looked at Keith and said, “You and me and the girls will head to the ranch. Stewart, you and Thomas take a look around here with Daniel.” Andrew then turned to Emma, “Do you think you can keep an eye on Amy and Beth in your cabin for a little while?”

“Of course, Dear. We’ll be just fine.”

Emma and the girls went inside and sat down to have some tea. Emma liked tea parties and it had been so long since she’d had one…she was excited to spend some time with the young girls. While they were inside, Andrew led Connie, Debbie and Keith to the burned-out remains of what used to be the ranch, while Stewart, Thomas and Daniel checked the perimeter of Emma’s cabin.

“Look, over here!” Daniel said to Thomas in more than a whisper but not quite a shout. He didn’t want to startle the girls inside, and he definitely didn’t want his grandma to come out.

Thomas looked where Daniel was pointing and saw two different types of footprints on the ground outside of the cabin. One set was right up against the house and one set was about ten feet away from the outer walls. “Emma has a problem. She is lucky last night wasn’t her last night alive!”

“Is that bear?” Daniel asked. He had been to the cabin throughout his life, but was, for all intents and purposes, a city boy. Bear tracks were not something he saw regularly.

“The ones farther away are, but the ones right next to the house, they belong to a wolf. If she heard someone nearby and it was a wolf or a bear, then she got really lucky!”

“Wow. I guess I never thought about the fact there would be wild animals out here! Deeper in the woods, sure…heck, all the way back by the mountains, of course. Grandma shouldn’t live alone all the way out in the woods like this.”

“Believe me, Andrew has tried many times to get her to move in with all of us, but she is …”

“One stubborn old broad?” Daniel asked, sounding like he had experience with her personality.

“You said it, not me!”

“Grandma has been independent for as long as I’ve been alive and even before then. She is stubborn, and if she

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