Extinction Level Event (Book 1): The Turn by J. Walker

Author:J. Walker [Walker, J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Publisher: J. Walker
Published: 2014-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The days turned to weeks. Eventually those weeks turned to months. The sun rose and set, the moon waxed and waned. The long summer days abandoned us to long autumn nights. The air became cool and crisp, carrying with it a fresh and clean feeling. The best part of all, it didn’t carry the sour aroma of the dead that often left a bitter aftertaste on our palates.

Although the weather was still favorable, we eventually moved Sam and his sons out of their cramped tents and into the empty mobile home. The two young siblings that had arrived with them had been living with Amy for quite some time. She lavished them with much needed love and attention. They seemed to fill the void left by John’s death.

The youngest, a girl of three named Chloe, quickly became Lauren’s best friend. Chloe’s older brother, Cooper was six and soon he was best buddies with Liam and Simon. Sarah’s little brothers, Matt and Lucas admired the older teenaged boys and followed them around most of the day. Ben and Charlie were very good natured about their new fans and allowed the boys to help them with their chores.

The summer harvests gave us plenty of food to preserve for the winter months. The autumn yields proved to be almost as bountiful. Everyone continued to work on fruit preserves and vegetable canning because we were able to grow an ample supply of both. We wanted nothing to go to waste. Without knowing how long we would have to wait for government or military intervention, our food supply was a crucial element to our survival.

Regardless of the great harvest, I worried about the long winter ahead. Amy was preparing seedlings to be planted in the greenhouses. There was no promise that it would work but we had to try. Guaranteed we would grow weary of what we had on supply and the lack of variety might not meet our nutritional needs. I was worried about the younger children, their physical and intellectual growth could be negatively affected by malnutrition.

Ashley and Sarah decided they would take on additional responsibilities by giving the younger ones simple lessons in math, spelling and reading. If governments around the globe had truly fallen, all of humanities collective discoveries and knowledge would eventually fade away. In a generation or two, everything we’d become and everything we’d learned as a collective consciousness, would be lost to humanity as a whole. We would be adrift in an age of darkness and there was no guarantee we would ever recover our evolutionary footing.

Ben, Charlie and the older boys studied as well but their focus was on learning the various aspect of the compounds operations. They worked under the careful guidance of Mike and Sam. Sam knew a great deal and we continued to learn from his past experience in the pre-outbreak world.

Prior to his entering the scene, Amy and I had very minimal knowledge of keeping everything running smoothly. Now we were all capable and knowledgeable in the maintenance of the compound’s complex equipment.

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