Dead Paper Birds by Megan McKinney

Author:Megan McKinney [McKinney, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter thirteen… Time for offense I suppose

We were back in the car. Dean had woken up when Richard and Rick had moved him. I wasn’t tall enough to keep him as stable as possible. He’d still woken up and had groaned. The groans were terrible. They came from deep in his chest and they came bubbling out of his mouth. Other than the groans he didn’t say anything. I glanced over my shoulder, he was set up in the backseat about as comfortable as he was going to get. In the daylight his skin was white. No color in his face, unless the black-blue circles around his eyes counted as color. His skin was cool, not cold but not warm either.

I twisted back to look out the windshield. I was in the front with Rick again. My pistol was warm in my hand. I didn’t dare put it away, at least not until we had left this area. I didn’t trust it. The buildings seemed to loom over us, their broken windows were like dark souls staring down. Souls that were ready to suck us up at a moment’s notice. Beside me Rick was driving almost completely at ease. He didn’t look tense at all, at least until you looked at his hands. His knuckles were white from gripping the steering wheel.

I ran a hand through the fur of one of the dogs. It was the one with dark brown and black fur. Absentmindedly I scratched his ears and stroked his head. He had a calming effect on me, just being able to run my fingers through his soft fur and not being expected to hold up a conversation with him. Dogs are so accepting. I could definitely use more of them in my life.

“What are their names? And where did you find them?”

He grunted. “What?”

“What are their names? And where did you find them?” I repeated.

He looked down at the dog in-between him and I. “Rum and Coke, the one who is an attention hog is Rum back there is Coke.”

Rick glanced at Rum again who was now laying in my lap but who had rolled over for me to scratch his stomach. “I uh, I found them. They were pups. Eyes weren’t even open. Mother an’ litter mates nowhere to be found. Took ‘em as mine. Infected don’t give a damn about animals, they only like people and I’m not a fan of people either.”

“Ahh.” There wasn’t much more to say to that. Although I never really gave much thought to whether animals were on the food chain or not.

Rum was sitting next to me while Coke was sitting on his other side, next to Rick. I wanted to wrap my arms around him and bury my face into his fur, but I needed both hands free just in case. Between us three and Rick, the remaining raiders in the city and the infected we were vastly outnumbered. Rick drove slowly, winding in and out of dead cars. He flexed his fingers on his right hand before placing it back onto the steering wheel.

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