Walking in the Rain (Book 1): Surviving the Fall by Allen William

Walking in the Rain (Book 1): Surviving the Fall by Allen William

Author:Allen, William [Allen, William]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Post Apocalyptic
Published: 2015-01-25T05:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER EIGHT

After that big buildup, the roadblock turned out to be pretty anticlimactic. One of the guards, a uniformed deputy with a handlebar mustache and a few days growth of beard came out to meet us and asked Ruth her destination. The deputy gave us all the once over, noting our weapons close at hand I’m sure, but quickly turned his attention back to Ruth. He seemed to think she was a citizen of Harrison and Ruth did nothing to dissuade him of the notion. She explained that her family (including her little brother and sister) were headed to the family farm to ride out the trouble. Deputy Savis didn’t ask what she meant by trouble and Ruth did not volunteer.

“Did you register your trip with the town council? So nobody thinks you folks went missing.”

“Yes, sir. All good to go. I’ve got some paperwork right here…” Ruth said, holding up some wrinkled sheets of paper and included the envelope with her family’s address, but the deputy just waved her through.

“Just hold onto it ma’am. And be safe. I see everybody in this vehicle is heavily armed, except the baby,” he said with a wry smile,” so ya’ll better be ready to use them to defend yourselves. I hate to say it, but there’s just no law enforcement past this point.”

“Yes sir, Deputy. And thank you for doing this. I know trying to keep all of us safe is keeping you from your family.”

Ruth’s kind words seem to strike a chord with the deputy as he murmured “you’re welcome” and waved for the others to clear the barricade for our vehicle.

As we were headed on down the road once again, Amy piped up from the back seat.

“Well, that went better than I expected.”

“I don’t know,” Stan responded, “the deputy seemed legit but I caught one of the other guards eyeballing this truck pretty close. And he didn’t look happy.”

I’d missed that, but Stan was almost certainly right. Even though we’d just met today, the guy continued to impress me with his brains and cool demeanor. If his observation proved out, then the bandits had somehow infiltrated the deputies with spotters. Pick out the best targets, and steer their crews in for the kill.

“I wonder if their spotter back there has a working radio? Or access to one?” I said, knowing we had found nothing like that in this truck. There was an under dash mount for a CB, but the radio itself was long gone judging from the rust I noted on the connecting arm bolts. Well, not the rust itself but that the rust was undisturbed.

“Don’t know, but I guess we need to proceed like he does,” Ruth said, impressing me with her calm yet determined tone.

“Yes, ma’am. Let’s get back on watch,” I said, and turned my full attention back to watching my part of the perimeter. Again, I thought about how mind numbing this exercise turned out to be. After about ten minutes of this, I heard Ruth make a small gasp.



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