Waterproof by Garr Amber

Author:Garr, Amber [Garr, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mystical Muse Publishing
Published: 2013-11-09T05:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Zach

“Did you say blood?” I asked Lew, his declaration sounding a bit too ridiculous.

“That’s impossible,” Trevor added. He’d moved closer to my side and lifted Vee’s sword ever so slightly. I didn’t like that he touched it at all.

“How do you know this?” Sasha asked the most important question.

Lew’s shoulders slumped, recognizing the disbelief in our voices. “Wade had a friend of a cousin who hooked up with a mercenary…”

I laughed at the same time Jackson made some kind of noise. Mercenaries didn’t mix with deserters. Ever. Sasha looked just as skeptical as she tilted her head to the side and stared at Lew.

Wade, one of the other two men in the group stepped in front of Lew. He looked dirty and tired in the worn out set of camouflage, but his face filled with excitement. “It’s true. I swear it.” When we didn’t argue, he continued. “She said he told her about the sanguination room-”

“Exsanguination,” Lew corrected.

Wade glanced at him with shifty eyes before continuing. “Yeah, what I said. The room where they take the blood. Although it’s not like a room…it’s like the size of a football stadium. And the bodies hang from the ceiling with all these,” he moved his arms around like a mime, “tubes and things that feed through one side and suck the blood out the other.” Wade eyes widened when he saw our expressions. “I’m tellin’ the truth!”

“Who said this?” Jackson asked.

“My cousin, Sheila. She spent some time with one of the mercenaries a few years back.”

“And where is Sheila now?” Trevor questioned with a wary tone.

Wade stopped moving back and forth. “I…I don’t know. They took her a year ago.”

Sasha walked toward the small group being careful not to make any sudden moves. “Look, Wade, I’m sorry about your cousin. But blood? Really? Humans can’t survive on that. We need water, and blood is only-”

“Fifty percent water,” Trevor interrupted. He looked at all of us with something dark in his eyes. “It would work. If there were enough of us…”

“Just wait,” I said. “I can’t wrap my brain around this.” I pointed to Wade. “So you’re saying that your cousin slept with a government worker who told her they’re collecting deserters to use them to supply who? I thought the government handed out rations to those who served them, while the rest of us struggled. They would need thousands of humans to support that kind of set up.”

“And how many deserters come home?” Lew asked his question for the second time.

“I don’t buy it,” I said. Maybe because I couldn’t stomach what this meant.

“Have you ever seen a factory?” Trevor asked the group.

They all shook their heads, but Wade answered. “No. I only know what Sheila told me. The man claimed they had a whole city locked up inside.”

“A city? With people? Who drink blood?” Sasha huffed.

“Not drink blood like a vampire or something. But getting their water though the blood harvested from those like us.” Lew’s voice shook with anxiety. His wife had been collected.

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