Embers by Daniela Elana

Author:Daniela Elana [Elana, Daniela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The descent of America
ISBN: 9781732169548
Published: 2019-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

“Bros before hoes,” Rain said, peeking around the corner. I frowned.

“I’ll be fine, Leo, you and Rain can continue your “bromance” some other time,” I said, walking up beside him.

“I never took you for the type to say something like that,” he said.

“Well I’m full of surprises,” I said. Rain lifted his arms, mouthing something to him that conveyed his annoyance. Leo looked back at him then at me and closed his eyes and muttered something to himself.

“Rain, I’m taking her this time.”

“Leo, are you crazy?” Rain said. He didn’t answer him. “You haven’t seen them in years, and you don’t know how they’ll react especially with her with you.” I wondered who this they were that Rain was referring to. Leo ignored his comment, walking with me to the garage where a 1966 white Ford Mustang sat.

“Another classic car and it’s a mustang this time?” I said. He shrugged.

“I prefer everything vintage.” Leo came around and opened the passenger’s seat for me. I got inside and buckled in.

Leo sped down Interstate 285 West. Along the highway, the city streets were a war zone between angels and mutants.

“We should do this more often,” he said.

“Go out?”

“Runaway like what we did back in Dallas to DC.”

“I’ve run away more times than I can count.”

“I can relate,” he said.

“You can? I thought you were more confrontational.”

“Most times, but when it came to my community, Flo, I up and left.”

“Why?”

“They sold me to the state as an infant, that’s how I became an assassin.”

“I never would’ve imagined.”

“I hated them, but I stuck around twenty-one years before I took off.”

“Have you tried contacting them since?” I said. Leo didn’t answer as he exited the highway now driving through an abandoned residential area, and kept on going until we reached a slum on the edge of the city and parked.

I followed him as zombies staggered toward us, surrounding us. Leo drew a gun from his trench coat and blasted them into patches of flesh. One staggered out from behind him.

“Leo!” I shouted. He shot from behind without turning.

“I’m getting too used to you killing, this can’t be good.”

“Someday I’ll train you.” He placed his arm around me as we rounded the corner, passing a pile of rotting dead corpses, to an abandoned alleyway.

“Stay close,” he said, I followed behind him, as he shined a flashlight. He knocked lightly on a brick wall. No one answered, and he muttered something.

As we turned to leave, a brick slid, slightly and a bearded man stuck his head out, staring at Leo and he smiled. His shaggy black hair was a mess. The man glanced at me—his smile faded.

“Come in,” the man said, surveying the area. Leo parted the way, and I entered in before him, the man watched me.

“What are you here, for now, brother, you haven’t been to visit yourself for nine years and always send Rain or Enver, what have you’ve been doing all this time?” he said.

Leo didn’t answer him.

Behind the beat up, ally laid a community of people selling and trading food for silver and gold.

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