Repatriate Protocol Box Set by Kelli Kimble

Author:Kelli Kimble [Kimble, Kelli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-20T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

We finally finished the cabin, and the first installment was a bearskin rug for the floor. The cabin was shaped more like a brown igloo than a cabin; the walls curved up to meet in a mound at the top. At the very center of the cabin, I could stand upright. George had to hunch over — which he’d had to do in the tent as well, so it wasn’t anything new.

There was a hole in the side, two feet above the ground, to enter and exit. It had taken a lot of work, but we’d managed to build a door out of branches, lashed together to form a panel. It was held in place by a tent pole embedded in the side of the hole with tiny tracks beneath it, which allowed a rope to be woven underneath it. The door wasn’t ideal. It certainly wasn’t wind or water-tight and wouldn’t withstand any type of attack by a determined predator. It was the best we could do, and it functioned as well as we could hope.

We’d only been in the cabin a few days when George fell ill. He had a terrible fever and couldn’t manage to drag himself out of the cabin hole. The first aid kit didn’t have medicine in it beyond disinfectant and bandages, so treatment was reduced to cool rags on his forehead and chest. Eventually, I realized I really needed help. He was getting weaker, so weak that he couldn’t even get up to go to the bathroom. He used the bucket, which I hoped I would never have to drink from again.

I took the tablets with me to the woods, away from where I thought he’d be able to hear. I tried each of them at least a dozen times, but none of the links completed. I was curled up next to a tree, crying, when I heard a muffled voice.

“Hillary?”

I grabbed for the tablets, which I’d thrown aside in anger. But they were both blank. I shook one and then the other. I’d imagined it.

But then I heard the voice again, louder. It wasn’t coming from a tablet.

I lurched up from the ground, turning in every direction. And there she was.

Mary Todd. Mary Todd! She was running towards me, wearing a yellow external suit.

In an instant, she had me in a deathly grip. She squeezed me hard, but I was so happy to see her, I didn’t care. Joy or relief or maybe plain old anger welled up in me, mixed together in a vortex that made me feel like I might explode.

“I’m so glad to see you,” she said. She pulled away from me. “Let me look at you. Your skin is so dark. Why’s it like that? Are you not bathing, girl?”

Behind her, I saw more yellow suits emerging from the trees. “You’re not alone,” I said. Then I started crying. I sobbed so hard, I couldn’t speak for a solid five minutes, but everyone approached me and hugged

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