Beneath the Lake by Christopher Ransom

Author:Christopher Ransom [Ransom, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781405523417
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2015-01-14T00:00:00+00:00

They walk back to Leonard’s tent to fetch the gas can he used for his motorbike. The plan is to burn the creatures.

The Mercers are battered, scratched and wandering in a spirit world of post-combat adrenaline wash. But they are together, alive. The storm devoured the afternoon, and now dusk has come. They linger at the tent, recovering their strength, drinking water, ears twitching, still on guard.

The gas can is all but empty. Not nearly enough to ignite the wet mess on the sand. They may have to bury the remains, but Warren doesn’t trust this second choice. He would prefer to siphon some gas from the Bronco and turn them to ash.

They return with two flashlights, the guns, Leonard’s pocket knife and the small axe. They aren’t expecting more trouble but they are not going anywhere unprepared at this point.

When they get close to the boat, Warren notices Francine standing at the bottom of the boat ramp. She is staring at them like she doesn’t know who they are, can’t trust her eyes. When she hears their voices, she runs to her children and hugs them, crying, checking them for injuries.

Warren walks to the massacre beside the boat. He puts the flashlight on them, and everything he understands about the world goes to pieces.

They are slaughtered, scattered, broken, bled out. There is no risk of another attack.

But the dead are no longer as they had been, the larval creatures born out of that black and gray membrane. The shells have disintegrated, and everything else has dried up or been absorbed. Warren runs the flashlight up and down the beach but can find no trace of the alien biology.

What remains are people. Human beings.

A mother, a father and their son.

Megan’s family.

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