Flood by Brennan McPherson

Author:Brennan McPherson [McPherson, Brennan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McPherson Publishing
Published: 2017-11-08T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

Noah woke the next morning to the red light of sunrise striking his forehead. His first thought was of the strange man he’d dreamed visited them in the middle of the night. The second was of the mannequin he’d stuffed beneath his covers.

He pulled out the mannequin, thinking it looked like the man in his dream. The others were already gone, so he stuffed the mannequin under his covers, and rose to wash his face in the cold stream behind their home.

As he turned the corner, he saw the man from his dreams talking with Father in hushed tones, and his veins filled with enough chill water to wake himself a thousand mornings to come.

The old man nodded toward him, his ancient face crinkling into either a grimace or a smile. He couldn’t tell which, for matted facial and head hair obscured everything but his eyes and the bridge of his nose. Noah nodded politely, turned, and called, “Jade?”

“Jade went with Elina to gather firewood,” Lamech said. “She’ll be back soon.”

Noah nodded again, noticed how the old man watched him. “What are you looking at?” Noah said, and the old man shook his head.

Noah left and returned to sit on his bedding, pulling out his mannequin a second time, though it failed to keep his mind from the newcomer.

Could it be true? Was that old man really his grandfather? He wiped his eyes to relieve them of the strange pressure building behind them.

The old man and Father were talking as if they had known each other for years. Perhaps it was true, and he hadn’t dreamed his coming the night before. Only it seemed so strange. Father had been convinced no one would ever find them. That was why they lived so deep in the wilderness, and daily struggled to live.

“Because the world is burning,” Noah intoned. “And the thoughts of men are only evil continually.” That was why he and Jade had to live here. So that they could be different. Because the Others were evil, but they needed to be good.

Only he had never felt evil, so how much danger could there really be in living near the Others? He would never let them change him. How could they? He didn’t believe it possible, and neither did Jade. It was one of the few topics that both consistently desired to talk about, so they fell to discussing it frequently. As of yet, he and Jade had been given little choice to see any Others to judge for themselves what danger might lurk in their hearts.

Now one of the Others had found them. It didn’t matter if he was Noah’s grandfather. The man’s physical exterior was as vulgar as Noah could imagine, so if this man wasn’t evil, who was?

No matter what happened, Noah knew he had to get the old man alone. He chewed his bottom lip, walked the little mannequin back and forth, and said, “Do you have a heart of flesh or stone?” He pulled

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