Flowers Vs. Zombies (Book 5) Buried by Perrin Briar

Author:Perrin Briar [Briar, Perrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

ERNEST WAS lost. He didn’t know where he was or where he was heading. He had lost his way the instant the monsters had come bursting out of the foliage, in his direction. He couldn’t find his way now, not from his current location. He needed a good vantage point to identify how he might get somewhere safer, like the meeting place where the guns were supposed to be hidden.

Liz had made them each a copy of the map, but Ernest didn’t need it. He could recall every line and curve. That wasn’t his problem, only his total lack of any internal compass.

A twig snapped. Somewhere in the depths of the foliage. He backed away. Perhaps it was one of the others, equally lost as he himself was. They could work together and find their way to the meeting place. But he was terrified it wasn’t them at all, but something else. He needed to find out without getting seen.

He crept forward and approached a tree. The sound came from directly behind it. If he looked out from the wrong direction he could end up in the mouth of an undead. He crouched down, slowly, and gradually leaned back and peered around the tree trunk, but he never got to see more than the torn fragments of its pants leg.

This was not one of the Flowers.

A hand grabbed him and pulled him back down to his crouching position. A hand wrapped around his mouth. It wasn’t necessary—all the Flower family were used to remaining silent even under times of great duress. It never served to be noisy.

It was Fritz who had pulled him back, to safety, his hand placed over his mouth. Fritz didn’t remove his hand until the sounds of the figure on the other side of the tree began to move away. Ernest pulled Fritz’s hand away from his mouth.

“You don’t need to silence me like that,” Ernest said.

“You never know,” Fritz said with a shrug. “It was a Lurcher, in case you were wondering.”

Ernest rolled his eyes.

“You don’t say,” he said.

“I do say, actually,” Fritz said. “If it wasn’t for me, he would have seen you, and who knows what would have happened after that.”

“Probably nothing,” Ernest said.

“You don’t need to thank me,” Fritz said.

“I won’t,” Ernest said. “So, which way are we heading?”

“This way,” Fritz said, jabbing his thumb over his shoulder. “Only, I can’t remember exactly where we’re supposed to be heading. I lost my map.”

Ernest pointed to his head.

“Lucky for us, I can never lose mine,” he said.

“You would have if you’d put your head around that tree,” Fritz said.

He froze, casting around, looking over his shoulders.

“What?” Ernest said. “What is it?”

Fritz was quiet for a moment, still looking out for something that he had apparently seen in the foliage.

“Nothing,” he said. “I just thought I saw… Never mind.”

“If you saw something, I think we should make a move,” Ernest said, growing antsy.

“If anything found us, it’s unlikely it wouldn’t attack us if it could, don’t you think?” Fritz said.

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