Reincarnage: Maximum Carnage by Ryan Harding & Jason Taverner

Author:Ryan Harding & Jason Taverner [Harding, Ryan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epub, ebook, QuarkXPress
Publisher: Death's Head Presss
Published: 2021-09-27T22:00:00+00:00

XI.

LEE SEEMED LIKE a fun guy to be around, if you only had to deal with him for about 14 seconds, that is. Anything past that was torture.

“You girls would love my band,” he assured them.

“Girls?” Eliza echoed.

Lee missed the implication entirely. “Yep. Been playing since I was in grade school. Fastest fingers you ever saw.” He held up his hand and waved them. “Not just at playing music, either.”

Eliza rolled her eyes.

She was interested in his experiences since waking up here, not his stupid band. It was called Jack in the Box, a sleazy pun of approximately zero surprise from a guy who used words like “quim.” It was encouraging that such an idiot had survived this long, though.

Annette was out to lunch through this monologue, chewing the nails of one hand. She was lost in the latest crisis behind her eyes, thankfully a private one. Her eccentricities seemed much more embarrassing with someone who hadn’t been around them all afternoon. Hopefully they’d get to the checkpoint before she started acting up again. Lee claimed they were close.

“I know that map like the back of my hand.” He checked behind them. “I can’t see the lodge now. We’re making tracks, yo. They’re probably still talking about what to do. In our group, someone came up with an idea and we jumped on it without a town hall meeting.”

“You didn’t last very long,” Eliza pointed out.

Lee smiled at her. “I’m still here, though. Rock ‘n roll destiny. Staying in one place when someone’s after you, how stupid is that?”

Not half-bad if they don’t know you’re in that one place.

“We should keep a close eye around us and only talk when necessary,” she said.

Lee mimed zipping up his lip and tossing away the tab. It made her want to hit him even more.

The path was wide open, a field of high grass bordered on both sides by tall trees. The horizon had few obstructions, offering a glorious view of the transformation of the sky to burnt amber as the sun slid past. She tried not to dwell on how this magic palette would soon be pitch black.

As if reading her mind, Lee said, “Yeah, we’ll be at the checkpoint while it’s still light out.”

He led the way, and she was only too happy to let him. The grass grew wild over the years and no telling how many hidden things crept down in there. If one of them were to get bit, let it be Jack in the Box’s lead guitarist. She felt tiny things scamper (or slither) over her shoes several times. A convoy of tiny bugs jumped ahead with each step as if to flee the judgment of the giants.

“You’re sure they’ll open up for us?” She didn’t consider Patrick a fool, but he wasn’t too far from wearing a funny hat with jangly bells. Captain Napalm turned into Usain Bolt back at the lake house without the slightest concern for those left behind. Adam too, ditched his parents like embarrassing chaperones.

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