When They Came by Kody Boye

Author:Kody Boye [Boye, Kody]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-04-03T06:00:00+00:00

“I can’t stay here,” I said after I’d rested for several hours, during which time I’d bathed, changed into a set of Jason’s clothes, and donned his extra pair of shoes.

“Look around us,” Jason replied. “This place is gone.”

“There’s no way They could think there are survivors here,” Asha added.

“Maybe not in the wreckage,” I replied, “but here? In these apartments?”

“Asha and I already knocked on all the doors. No one answered.”

“That still doesn’t mean—”

“Ana,” Asha said, taking a few steps forward. She placed her hands on my arms and tightened her hold around my biceps until I looked her straight in the eyes. “Listen to me. Okay?”

I nodded.

“There isn’t anyone left but us.”

“Everyone’s dead,” Jason added. “We knocked on all the apartments, announced we were Guardsmen, and called for survivors to come out. There’s no one here, and because of that, Asha and I aren’t going to stay.” He crouched and searched through two backpacks he’d arranged on the floor near the doorway. “We were planning on going to Austin to see if we could find that hospital you mentioned to Asha the other day.”

“You mean Burgundy?” I asked, at which point they both nodded. “We don’t even know if we could make it there.”

“I know how to get to Austin from Fredericksburg,” Asha said. “It’s straight to the east from where we are.”

“And you know how to judge where you’re going from the direction of the sun?”

“Rises in the east, sets in the west.”

At least she knew what she was talking about.

With a sigh, I settled down on the couch and leaned back, feeling the effects of the night and of sleeping on a surface that had not been a plush mattress. My back ached, my arm throbbed, my feet burned from where I’d run over rocks and who knew what else. All I wanted to do was stay there and sleep—but I knew we couldn’t, not with the Coyotes and Harvesters in the area.

“I think what we should do,” Asha said after a moment’s silence, “is rest until the afternoon, then leave and make our way east. We can stop in one of the houses once it gets dark and board ourselves in for the night.”

“What about food?” I asked. “I mean, do you guys even have guns?”

Jason inclined his head toward the kitchen—where, upon the island, both of their semi-automatic rifles lay, complete with their body armor and ammo bandoliers.

“We can hunt for food,” Jason said, “cook it in a fireplace, hide out in one of the homes. We might not even have to make it to Austin for weeks if we play our cards right.”

“But we want to make it there,” Asha said, her voice hesitant. “I mean, so we can be with other people. Right?”

“Are you sure you guys want to risk bringing me along?” I asked. “After everything that’s happened?”

“We’re not going to leave you behind,” she replied. “I’ve lost everyone. I’m not about to lose you too.”

I smiled, though the pleasant emotion was short-lived.

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