Future Reshaped: A Post-Apocalyptic Harem (Future Reborn Book 3) by Daniel Pierce

Author:Daniel Pierce [Pierce, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

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Breslin wasn’t happy about acting as an escort, but he understood the importance of his role, so he agreed and made himself comfortable with Stanger’s people. I slept under the stars with Andi, wondering what awaited us in the forest.

The forest.

The phrase alone was alien to me after a short time in the rolling open of The Empty, but in truth, I was more curious about what existed under the forest. If life itself had been broken apart, then there was no limit to what we could expect. For that reason, taking more people made less sense. Andi and I worked well as a team, and in a pinch, we would be considered a bonded pair, which was true.

“Ready?” I asked her. The only answer was a smile in the dark. The sky was still black, the stars burning bright as a crescent moon hurried away behind the distant horizon, it’s job as a guide done for the night.

We moved smoothly to our truck, the only motion around us a pair of sentries who waved quietly. The low murmur of cattle drifted to us from the left, where they were tucked together in a small area between the wagons. Had I not known where and when the scene was taking place, it could have been a typical night in the American west.

But there was nothing typical about our reality, and I took the wheel in hand, turned the power toggle, and drove away north at a crawl, leaving the lights off until we were well away from camp. Andi looked back once, smiling at the sleeping people and cattle, and I knew she felt a sense of peace that they would be brought in from The Empty, where they could thrive.

“That was the best thing that could have happened to us,” she said.

“Did you see all the kids? Three pregnant women, too, and even a few dogs with the cattlemen. I feel like I hit the lottery. Twice,” I said.

“Three times if you count Mira,” she said, earning a bark of laughter from me as I cut the wheel to avoid the form of a collapsed cactus nearly eight meters long. The barrel was a mass of jagged thorns, split open to the sky and already swarmed by insects and small animals eating their fill of the juicy interior.

She brought her tablet to life and began watching a loop of the forest footage, then slowed it down until it was a frame by frame crawl.

“What are you thinking?” I asked her. She was an engineer and did things with a purpose.

“We—the military—never even went to the toilet without a plan. We wouldn’t know of the virus without a plan for after, if everything went to shit, and so, there must be orders. I’m wondering if we’re looking at one of those orders made real,” she said.

“The Joint Chiefs left instructions for after the house burned down? I wouldn’t put it past them, but this feels like the opposite to me. Like something got even further away from the original intent, mostly due to necessity.

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