Savage: An Apocalyptic Horror Novel by Iain Rob Wright

Author:Iain Rob Wright [Wright, Iain Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SalGad Publishing Group
Published: 2014-03-18T22:00:00+00:00

ANNA

Anna opened her eyes but could see only black. At first she thought she was blind, but then she saw the burning embers across the sand and the crackling fires up above on the pier. She coughed, spluttered, and sat up. The beach was unsafe. Sometimes the dead washed up on shore and began crawling around. No one ever set foot on the beach. So what am I doing down here?

She could only stare at the fire above her for a moment, marvelling at its beauty and enjoying the heat. It took her a few moments until she comprehended what it meant. The pier is burning. Something…something happened. A bomb, or an explosion…

Anna dragged herself up off the sand and staggered to her feet. Her head was swimming and she noticed fluid dripping from her fingertips. Her heart beat faster at the sight of her own blood, and she patted herself down frantically, looking for the source. A jab of pain on her right elbow alerted her to the fact that a long shard of wood had slid into her flesh and torn her open. She grabbed a hold of the giant splinter and cursed as she yanked it free. I…I don’t understand what’s happened.

But then she knew. She looked out across the moonlit sea and saw the bright lights of the frigate. 30MM guns, pointing right in our direction, she remembered someone saying. Roman had warned her, but she’d naively assumed he would return to negotiate. There had been nothing to gain by firing on the pier. But they did it anyway. Even now, after all the death and destruction we’ve seen, men will still kill to protect their vanity.

Anna spat at the ground and kicked sand into the air. She wanted to swim right up to the frigate and throttle whoever was in charge. Samuel Raymeady…

There were moans up above and suddenly Anna panicked that the dead had arrived. While she may have found herself stunned and disorientated on the beach, there was nobody else beneath the pier. The moaning could be coming from Alistair, old man Bob, or any of the others. Where is everybody? Are they okay?

Anna grabbed a hold of a twisted piece of the pier, which had collapsed from above. The large steel strut had twisted and bent inwards, making that whole section of pier list precariously to one side. The lowest part of the tilting deck was only ten feet above and almost within reach.

Anna placed a foot up onto the skewed piece of steel and hoisted herself higher. From there she was able to grab a hold of a plank jutting out from the deck. She winced as splinters bit into her palms, but she kept on climbing, pulling herself up, one handhold after another. By the time she pulled herself up onto the pier she was huffing and puffing, and her wounded elbow had split wide open. But none of that mattered.

The pier was on fire.

The amusement pavilion at the far end had collapsed into the sea.

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