Lost Sentinel Box Set by R R Roberts

Author:R R Roberts [Roberts, R R]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989850022
Publisher: Pajama Therapy Books
Published: 2020-04-18T22:00:00+00:00

25

Things Change

THEIR SECOND NIGHT IN RUSHTON, Wren and Coru slipped away from Charles Wood’s house, rested and in good spirits and wearing their night vision gear. They’d tagged six houses on Wren’s map to search for more of Bill’s meds between her father’s house and Beastette, the route taking them safely away from the downtown core, from where Wren judged the most mental chatter emanated.

The night was clear, the moonlight still slight, perfect for their plans.

Tonight, Coru took the lead, now knowing the layout of the town. Since he was insistent upon this, Wren shrugged and agreed. She heard him thinking this would protect her, so she let it go. Coru was a bit of a man’s man she now knew, and this was his way to care for those around him. She found it funny, after all they had been through, that she was now one of Coru’s flock. She could do worse.

She’d scan ahead in any case, make sure things were good.

The first two houses gave them nothing, the third was a gold mine of pain meds, which they added to their packs, but had no heart meds. The fourth and fifth also nothing, just burnt out shells. If there had been meds, they were long since destroyed along with the house.

With only one house, one more chance between her and Beastette and D.O.A., she had to make herself stay the course as they jogged silently along the back lane in single file toward it. Coru was running farther and farther ahead, her own steps slowing. This wasn’t right. There was something wrong—she could feel it. She had an almost overwhelming need to turn away, run to Beastette, fire her up and race away from this toxic place.

She called to Coru as loudly as she dared. “Coru. Stop!”

He stopped and turned back. “What’s wrong?”

“I don’t like this. This seems wrong. I want to skip this one.”

He looked puzzled but was instantly accepting. “Okay. We’ll skip it. Never ignore your intuition—.”

She cringed as a cacophony of minds burst across her mind, sending shards of pain behind her eyes. She squeezed them shut, fighting it, searching through it, needing to find the core … And discovered minds on the hunt. Like-minds; hive minds. Was this why she hadn’t heard them until now? They were operating low; there was a low common denominator linking them, locking them together, keeping them moving together. They were minds that had—. She yanked off her night goggles and blurted, “They saw you!” She gripped his arm and stumbled from the lane, propelling him with her into the backyard of a broken down mobile home.

“Who saw me?”

“Many men. Curtis Mathers’ men. There’s six, no, there are eight of them. They saw you cross that last intersection! They’re spreading out, surrounding this block. There’s too many of them. They know you’re here, Coru!”

Coru glanced around, assessing their surroundings. Looking for a place to hide, she knew. She also knew it wouldn’t work. These men lived for the hunt—this was their favorite sport, right here, right now, tracking an interloper.

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