We Are The Few by Stork Miranda

Author:Stork, Miranda [Stork, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Dystopian
Publisher: Isara Press
Published: 2016-10-02T23:00:00+00:00

“Everyone stay quiet. We’ll move along this side of the road, behind the barrier. If we go slowly, they won’t see us.”

Reilly and Freda both nodded at Harris’ instructions as he pulled back against the corner of the yellow-brick house. The bricks had been more cheaply made then the ones gracing the buildings in York itself, and the house was pockmarked where the wind and rain had beaten it over the decades. Toby stuck his hand up as though he was in a classroom, shaking as he pulled his gun closer to comfort himself.

Freda could see Harris restraining himself not to roll his eyes as he hissed, “Yes, Toby?”

“We’re not actually going to go past them, are we? Shouldn’t we find another way around?”

“We already tried that. There isn’t. Now, be quiet and follow me.”

Toby closed his eyes for a second, cursing under his breath as he flattened himself against the wall at the rear of the group, just behind Freda. Although his constant nerves were irritating her, she shared his concerns. The bandit camp ahead hadn’t exactly been in their plans, but there was no other way around. They would have to pass them without being seen, or risk a heavily outnumbered fight. Several against four. Well, three and a half, maybe. If Toby remembers which way around his gun goes.

Harris went first, ducking his head as he moved slowly from the corner of the house and along the hedge running alongside it. He peered around the corner, before crooking a finger over his shoulder for the others to follow, turning and looking towards their target. A large bus was blocking the road, but it provided the perfect cover from the bandits, followed by a high wall that bordered the pavement on the other side. All they had to do was make it across to the bus, and do it without being seen.

Freda peered over the top of the hedge, being careful to keep out of sight as she looked back across at the camp. The bandits were using what looked like an old government building, its sides covered in grey slabs of concrete, its plain windows lined perfectly at regular intervals along the walls like vacant eyes. There were chairs and patio umbrellas set up outside with a rusty barbeque. It would have been a peaceful sight, if not for the blood smears and skins of dead animals hung from the torn edges of the umbrellas. In large red letters, painted across the double doorway into the building, were the words ‘BANDITS TERITORRY. PREPAIR TO DIE’. Although it wasn’t the time or place, Freda itched to correct them on their spelling and grammar.

Some of the bandits were sat or stood outside, some smoking and talking to one another, while others to the far side looked as though an impromptu boxing match had been set up. Two of them pummelled one another with bloody fists while a circle of their comrades stood around, shouting and whooping with vicious delight.

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