Death Flag by Richard Haygood

Author:Richard Haygood [Haygood, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-24T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Dawn came way too early for Madison. He was on his feet and out of the bed before his brain ever realized that his body was moving, and he instinctively stumbled around as he headed for the coffee pot before he remembered where he was and that there wasn’t one. He had only managed to grab a few hours of sleep after talking with Alyanna for a while, and they were the first that he could remember actually taking on his own in even longer. Most of his time resting had been while under the influence of medicinal healing magic, and he knew now that it just wasn’t the same as the good old-fashioned kind.

Madison was the first to wake up, and a quick glance out the window at a grey-tinted predawn sky told him that he hadn’t nabbed more than a few hours and that it wouldn’t be long before the sun was up and everyone else along with it. How they were supposed to leave wasn’t something that they had discussed with Burke, but Madison didn’t think the Guardian intended for them to make it obvious and broadcast it to the rest of K’yer Utane either. He already knew that it was unusual for people to venture outside the valley unless it was for training, reconnaissance, or on a mission, and none of those tasks would have ever been delegated to anyone in their group except Warren. So, Madison started banging on doors to the bedrooms and waking people up. His experience hiking taught him that it was always better to start before the sun came up to avoid as much of the day’s heat as possible, and that fact together with his desire to leave spurred him on.

Madison looked around the living room and then checked outside the door, and true to Burke’s word, there were four pre-arranged bags of gear and several large baskets of food. He quickly pulled them inside and set them up in a row beside the door and then started going through the rations. Most of it was repetitive and ubiquitous, containing dried fruits, meats, oats and breads with a few different spreads, but one of the large picnic-style baskets also contained a heaping feast of breakfast foods. Madison took that one to the large table that they had eaten on the night before and was in the process of setting out everything when everyone else finally started emerging from their rooms.

Warren was the first to appear, looking only slightly-dazed over the lack of sleep, and he was soon followed by Erin and Shayna. Erin was as somber and composed as she ever was—anything else would have been weird on the typically-stoic girl—but Shayna looked frumpy and half asleep. Given that the two emerged from the same room, it was likely that Erin had woken her up and gotten her moving by use of more than a little bit of force. Her clothes were disheveled, her eyes were still half-closed, and

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