Dead Nation (Beyond The Fall Book 2) by Joshua Guess

Author:Joshua Guess [Guess, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-12T06:00:00+00:00

Kate and her people were on their way back home a few hours later, leaving only the strike force spread around the perimeter in case any enemy eyes actually were closer than expected. I did as Jackie and Marie...we'll say asked since it makes me look less like a child in need of supervision, and kept to the secure routes set up by my people. That's a relative term not to be taken as a statement of absolute safety. It was secure from direct observation by anyone inside the compound, even from their new tower.

Other than our endless circle of roving scouts and sentries, my team's circuit of the perimeter was last. It was not the kind of micromanaging an outsider might assume, but a more practical need on my part. I had to see how the preparations were coming along for myself so I could adjust resources as needed. That meant putting eyes on the whole thing at least every other day.

Fortunately for us, our supply lines were in good order. The van had fuel to spare and with no enemies out here to fire on us we could take the outer roads not blocked by deadfalls and move inward on foot. It was much faster than trying to hoof it between sites or even navigating the labyrinth.

“Let us go first,” Jackie said as we left the van about two hundred yards west of the last work site on our list. It was dusk, maybe an hour left until full dark. The whole team had been at it for hours. We'd all gotten pretty good at picking our way through the mess of fallen trees and dense woodland to get to the work zones. Not all the sites were being prepped as traps, but my paranoia about being observed meant we had to treat them all the same. No team could be seen as more or less important than any other.

“We go together,” I said, gesturing at a tired Jo and Tabby. “We've been on our feet all day, and I'd rather have a team at my back if someone comes gunning for us like they did at the tower.”

Marie raised an eyebrow. “A split team saved your ass when that happened, or so I heard it.”

I let the words pass over me, the anger they caused a fleeting and unstoppable reaction to losing Greg. Marie wasn't being glib, only stating a fact. Nor was she minimizing the loss. I knew that.

It also didn't matter. A lot of rage was inextricably tied to that day. I couldn't avoid feeling it at the slightest mention.

“We're going together,” I said again, doggedly forcing my voice not to come out flat and cold.

This was pulling rank and I was surprisingly okay with it. There were limits to what I could allow myself to be pushed into or out of as the case may be. There are a lot of bullshit reasons I could throw out there for wanting everyone in my sight. The deep down true one was plain old fear.

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