Valhalla by Mark Tufo & John O'Brien

Author:Mark Tufo & John O'Brien [Tufo, Mark & O'Brien, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Publisher: DevilDog Press
Published: 2018-10-16T04:00:00+00:00

Jack Walker—Chapter 4

Walking under the canopy high overhead, patches of blue showing between the boughs, my mind is filled with thoughts of where I’ve found myself. The experiences of the other world where I met Mike and Trip have shown that there isn’t any neon sign pointing to the obvious. It was some convoluted time thing Trip had going, and there was no way I’d have found a way out on my own. That very thought is depressing, as I have no idea what the hell is going on here.

First, there is the difference in terrain between where I fell into this place and in the town. I’m no rocket scientist, but it’s apparent some time or space distortion is taking place. And then there was waking up in a future where the town had been abandoned some time ago and night runners ruled. Now, perhaps it wasn’t so much a future of that particular time, but rather an alternate path. It could be that variances of alternate realities rolled through the area, or I was watching a past, present, and future of this particular timeline.

None of it makes much difference because I wouldn’t know what to do with the information anyway. It doesn’t really help at all other than to keep me on my toes and try to be ready for anything. But, how do you go about readying yourself for abrupt switches in reality? I’m really beginning to wonder if I haven’t gone clinically insane in my real world; that the blood from the night runners didn’t have some side effect of a massive hallucination. I could actually be lying on my cot, having been carried there after slumping over at the table, uncontrollably drooling on my pillow.

The fact that I’ve felt pain and shed blood lends a certain credence to this all being real. I’ve had some pretty lucid dreams before, but never quite like this. I’ve also had experiences of being outside my body, and this is different. In the dreams, while I had control over what I was doing to an extent, it wasn’t as detailed. I bend down to pick up a dead pine needle just to demonstrate to myself the ability to control my actions. In the out of body experiences, I would turn on light switches or electronics only to have them not work. Plus, the feeling is entirely different.

But, what I have is what I have, regardless if it’s real or not. After all, I really don’t have much of a choice and might as well see this ride to its conclusion.

Another aspect is the fact that Lynn and a semblance of my kiddos are here, which adds an additional facet. In the other world, I found evidence of an alternate self that quite possibly had a hand in what happened. And the kids were there as well, so it’s likely there was an alternate Lynn too. But, I found no evidence of her, though that might just have been because the population had been decimated—absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

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