Innocence Ends by Robinson Nikolas P

Author:Robinson, Nikolas P. [Robinson, Nikolas P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Infected
Publisher: Domus Necrophageous Media
Published: 2020-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

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The relief in the cavern is palpable as the friends compare their experiences since separating at the bar the evening before. Though it hasn’t been 24 hours since the events at the diner had transformed the vacation into a nightmare, it feels like they’ve lived through so much.

Hewitt responds as if he’s taken a blow when Abraham tells him what happened with Deputy Weber and how he and Ben had remained tucked away in hiding, too uncertain of the situation to act until it had been too late. He and the deputy had bonded more than he’d realized until that moment, during the hours they’d spent together, relying on one another to survive. Hewitt winces as he hears the detailed admission from his friend that the man’s death had been avoidable, but he knows that Abraham made the right, probably the only, choice at the time. It was the only thing that made any sense for them to do. He had his son to worry about and with the lunacy unleashed within the town, the risk was too great.

Still, it pains him to know the man is gone.

Deputy Albert Weber had struck Hewitt as being a good man, someone he could respect and maybe even admire, and his death just meant that there was one less person to fight the rising tide of insanity threatening to wash them all away with the floodwaters.

He finds himself shifting focus to the fact that Abraham and Ben are the only friends he’s seen since Kateb’s murder led them to striking out on their own. With the deputy dead, he worries that no one will find them here in the mine, assuming anyone else is alive and in any condition to search for them.

Relief fades into defeat just like that, as he allows himself to consider the very real possibility that the three of them might be the only ones left alive.

He knows these thoughts, the flickering voices in the back of his head whispering terrifying possibilities. It’s a concerted effort of willpower for him to even begin shifting the focus away from those awful thoughts.

It’s difficult for him to imagine Miles falling to the violence out there while he somehow managed to make it through the night. Mariah was more suited to survival as well, he reminds himself, she’s certainly a more effective hunter than he is. Gale may be soft, but he’s sly and he knows the area, which has to give him some advantage. He was with Mariah the last time they’d seen each other as well, and she would keep him safe. They would keep each other safe.

The only way he won’t go mad with desperation and grief is to keep reminding himself that his friends out there are better equipped to the situation than he is.

The whole thing had snuck up on them. It was a surprise for Kateb, for all of them, when that first incident had happened, but it wasn’t a surprise to any of them anymore.

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