This Rotten World | Book 3 | No More Heroes by Morris Jacy

Author:Morris, Jacy [Morris, Jacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2017-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: The Compound

Clara and Mort looked down at Joan and Lou. Joan was awake and conscious, her leg severely broken. Mort couldn't look at Lou for long. His skin was blistered and peeling. He had been burned severely.

"What happened to him?" Mort asked.

"He passed out. Fell in the fire," Reed said.

"He didn't just pass out," Clara spat.

"Believe what you want to believe," Reed said, "but that man right there passed out and fell in the fire."

"Why are you keeping us here?" Clara asked.

Reed laughed behind Chad, a squawking, weird sound that sounded frightfully unstable. "We're not keeping you here," Chad said. To Clara, it actually sounded like he meant it. "As a matter of fact, this guy is going to have to stay outside the gates."

Chad was pointing at Mort. "Why?" he asked.

Chad just smirked at Mort. "I'll tell you why. Come with me. Outside." Chad turned and left the trailer that Lou and Joan shared. He stepped outside and Clara and Mort followed, stepping into the clearing in the middle of the camp. The trailers were dust-covered, and the windows were ringed with mildew. Chad spread his arms wide and said, "This is why."

Women moved through the compound, hauling water from a spring while armed men walked alongside them. Some tended a garden that was growing off to the left of the massive fire pit.

"Notice anything?" Chad said. Reed smirked behind him. To Clara, he seemed like a giggling monkey or that weird creature that always sat jabbering by Jabba the Hutt in that Star Wars movie.

"It's nice here," Mort said.

"You're goddamn right it's nice here. And we aim to keep that way. You see, you people are running around like you're living a nightmare. Us? We're living a dream."

Mort's confusion showed on his face. Clara started to feel uneasy in the pit of her stomach.

"Only problem is there ain't no dark people in my dream, you get my drift?"

Clara's stomach dropped. She couldn't believe it. The end of the world, nothing but a few hundred people alive as far as she knew, and one of them was a racist.

Chad continued, saying, "Now, don't get me wrong. You got every right to live and try and make your way in this world. I ain't gonna stop you. Neither is my brother Reed." Chad looked at his brother, but he was silent. "But you got to do your living outside the walls. If you want to stick around until your friends are alright, then that's fine. During the day, you can come in and visit and trade, but as soon as it starts getting dark, I want you out of here."

"Why?" Mort asked, genuinely confused.

Chad just shrugged his shoulders. "That's the way it has to be. You see, I think the whole reason the world is in the shape it's in is because no one knew their place. Everyone's looking over into other people's yards and saying, 'Ooooo-weeeeee! I wish I had that man's barbecue.' When what they really

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