Nightwalker by Frank Roderus & Craig Martelle

Author:Frank Roderus & Craig Martelle [Roderus, Frank]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642021820
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2019-04-08T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Mister, I told you everything I can remember. Honest.”

“All right, now shut your mouth and sit there.”

“You won’t hurt me? You promised.”

“I won’t kill you,” Wolfe told him again, “unless you move off that spot but if you stand up or try to crawl away all bets are off. Do you understand me?”

“Yes, sir. I won’t do nothing I swear.”

Wolfe believed him. Billy was thoroughly terrified and obviously believed that obedience was his only chance to avoid Wolfe’s wrath. Giving Billy a final glance of warning, Wolfe turned and went back into the culvert. He retrieved two of the sleeping bags. The third was ruined, soaked with the blood of the slain man.

Wolfe recovered his bow and knife as well. He found and appropriated a flight bag containing the collection of knives, none of which seemed to have been contaminated and a Boy Scout hatchet. He was overjoyed to find a folding saw and dropped that into the bag along with the knives and hatchet.

All the firearms gave off the tingle of radiation except a single action .22. There were only seven cartridges for that. No wonder they had been so reluctant to waste ammunition when they shot fisherman and then thought about shooting Wolfe too.

Wolfe took the assorted weaponry and sleeping bags and all the food he could find. He carried them up to the bicycle cart. He intended to keep that cart as it was light and nicely balanced and could be pulled with one hand.

When he went back down the embankment Billy was exactly where Wolfe had left him. “If you want to keep living stay exactly where you are and shut up.”

“Yes, sir.”

Wolfe went to the barbed wire fence that paralleled the county blacktop and carefully ran his hand close to the metal before accepting it as good since there was no tingling sensation coming off the wire. It occurred to him to wonder why he was able to feel radiation but no one else did or at least no one he had yet encountered. That was as mysterious to him as the changes in his sensitivity to light and the color of his hair and most of all the freaky strength he seemed to have after the two years inside the mine.

There was no way he could have held a grown man off the ground like that and kept him hanging there for so long without ever tiring. Wolfe did not understand any of this. All he could do was accept it.

He tugged at the strands of wire and chose the one that was most loosely attached to the cedar fence posts. He yanked it free. Several minutes of patient bending, folding the wire back and forth on itself weakened the metal and allowed Wolfe to break it apart.

He walked fifty or so feet down the fence line pulling the barbed wire free as he went and broke the strand again leaving him with fifty feet of old wire in his hands. He went back to where Billy waited.

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