Z-Day (Book 3): A Place For War by Humphreys Daniel

Author:Humphreys, Daniel [Humphreys, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2018-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

May 21, 2026

En route to Frederiksted, US Virgin Islands

Z-Day + 3,137

With little else to do after Pete booted them from the interrogation, Miles and Sandy wandered back down to the open common area. By way of unspoken mutual agreement, the two men stood and watched as Tish and the corpsmen treated the islanders’ various maladies.

It was, Miles decided, a very surreal experience. He’d become accustomed to the presence of children, both in Hope as well as on Kellys Island. Hell, there were a ton of kids on St. Croix. Here, not so much. The youngest children were old enough to have been born before Z-Day, which seemed incongruous to Miles. One of the first aspects of modern life to fall away was effective birth control. Who knew how close the nearest pharmacy was—so why weren’t there any toddlers running around? The rhythm method wasn’t that effective. In the end, there was only one conclusion he could draw—that the islanders had made certain that they wouldn’t have to worry about unplanned pregnancies. One way or another.

Which says a lot for how fervently they’ve bought into their belief system, but hell, how were they planning on running things after their population reduction played out without children?

Just as strange was the sense of deja vu he got, seeing older versions of people he used to see a few times a week in the office, only in a completely different context. It had been long enough that most of the names escaped him—and being frank, it wasn’t like the IT department rubbed elbows with other divisions of the company. He’d gone to a few company picnics and kick-off parties, but he’d spent most of that time with his fellow computer geeks. And none of his old team seemed to have gotten the same ‘get out of apocalypse free’ card as the rest of the islanders. He supposed that was a good thing. Miles didn’t know how he’d react if one of his old friends popped up.

He looked sideways at Sandy. The other man’s face was blank and his eyes were miles away. “Pretty damn weird, huh?”

Sandy flinched, then looked at Miles. “I’m sorry?”

He waved a hand at the crowd of people, all of them doing their level best to ignore the two of them. “You used to work with these people. I mean, I saw them every once in a while, on tickets, but some of them were in your department, right?”

“Oh. Yeah, I suppose so. Honestly, I was so focused on my work most of the time that a bomb could have gone off in one of the other labs and I might not have noticed.” He frowned. “Maybe if I’d gotten my head out of my ass, I’d have noticed what was going on.”

Miles took another look at the crowd of former GenPharm people and shook his head. “Nah. Don’t put that on yourself, Doc. You’re lucky you didn’t notice anything.”

“Why’s that?”

“Look at them. They should be cowering. Yeah, we don’t have much in the way of guns, but they know what we represent.

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