What Zombies Fear 3: The Gathering by Kirk Allmond

Author:Kirk Allmond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: zombie, superhero, father, undead, parasite, permuted press, outbreak, what zombies fear, kirk allmond, victor tookes
Publisher: Permuted Press

Chapter 18

Cross Country

Renee woke up two days after they got home. She was ravenously hungry, just like all of them after they'd been infected. Her mother poured food down her throat. The first day, they gave her chicken broth and vitamin pills. After Renee drank almost a gallon of chicken broth the first day she was awake, Mrs. Tookes added boiled chicken and homemade egg noodles. Chicken soup really was good for the soul. Renee had been home for five days when she was feeling good enough to get up and move around. Maya and Holly stayed beside her almost the whole time, except when Max could drag them outside to play tag or hide 'n seek.

Victor was glad to have her up and moving. He was glad that she was healthy and safe but also because he really needed her input on what to take when they went to get John's family. Renee was a logistical genius. She had a way of looking at a project and seeing exactly what would be necessary.

A few years before the end of the world as they knew it, Marshall had given Sharon a beautiful globe with semi-precious stones inlaid in each country. Victor spent more than a few hours staring at that globe while Renee was laid up, pondering how difficult it would be to make it all the way around it.

He was staring at that globe on the fifth morning, holding with a string measuring distances from points he knew. He knew from driving so many times it was almost exactly seven hundred miles from his house in Pennsylvania to his father's house in Atlanta. Seven hundred miles was four inches of string. Australia is a much bigger country than I thought, he contemplated. According to his string, it was about two thousand- five hundred miles across Australia. If I were flying and leaving from Western Australia, I would fly across the country, refueling in northern Queensland, before heading north east to Hawaii, almost five thousand miles, he continued. He knew very little about long distance flying, but that seemed like about an eight-hour flight. From Hawaii, I'd then make the jump to southern California, avoiding Los Angeles at all costs. There had to be a number of southern California airports where they could refuel, but with the population density in all of southern California, Victor had a terrible feeling landing there.

If they were safely able to refuel there, it was about twelve hours to the east coast, depending on the plane they were in. That meant a stop somewhere near Kansas for fuel, unless they were in a huge 747 or something. Maybe they had a 747 and pilot, but given the percentage of survivors in the world and the number of 747 pilots prior to the end of the world, the chance of finding one seemed slim.

The leg from Australia to Hawaii had him most worried. The island was a tiny target in the middle of a very big ocean.

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