Windwalker by Sharon Sala

Author:Sharon Sala
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 2016-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

President Farley lost focus about the same time the last vehicles quit. They’d been on foot for hours and somewhere along the way they joined up with another group, and then another, until they were walking thousands strong. Some recognized him, but were too miserable to care. In the grand scheme of things, a president no longer mattered. Not when they were all on the verge of incineration.

Another hour had come and gone when they began seeing the bodies of people who’d been ahead of them. The stench was only slightly less shocking than their black and bloated carcasses.

Farley thought about his Chief of Staff, and the generals in the DOD. It wasn’t the first time he’d wondered why they were still waiting to fire the missiles? What the hell could have gone wrong?

He would have known the answer sooner if his brain wasn’t frying as he walked. When the answer finally hit him, he actually cried out in despair. Had it now been for one of his bodyguards, he would have fallen.

Without power, they could not launch. Without a launch, they didn’t have a devil’s chance of salvation. There was no way, even if Layla Birdsong was standing before him, that he could make everything happen fast enough to save a nation. At that point, he abdicated what was left of his conscience and started running, desperate to get closer to the front, leaving his entourage and responsibilities behind.

And then like a miracle, word began passing down through the hikers that the Indians had been sighted. As they approached an overlook a short time later, the march of Indians down in the canyon below was plainly visible.

As the crow flies, the Indians were only two, maybe three miles ahead of them. Walking, it would be longer, but it was enough that they’d been sighted. Someone shouted down at them to wait, and then others began screaming and yelling until their voices became a roar.

The sound carried down into the gorge. The People looked back and then up. When they saw the horde on the ridge above them, they broke out in a run.

And just like that, the ones above them gave chase.

The race was on.

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