Shadow Sun Survival by Dave Willmarth

Author:Dave Willmarth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2019-03-02T22:00:00+00:00

As the vehicles came to a stop and the others piled out, Allistor pumped his fist in the air. “WE just hit the damned lottery!” he shouted. He described the heart to the others as they all took turns looting the monster. Each of them received a few hundred klax, some meat and armor bits. One of the elder ladies received a scroll. And two of the kids each received an eyeball, much to their delight.

When they’d finished looting, Sam grabbed a knife and a crowbar, telling others to do the same. He began skinning the shellback, explaining to the others how they’d harvested the titan. The shellback didn’t smell good, but it was much easier to take than the titan stench. They spent some time harvesting skin and fragments of shell that they managed to break off around the edges of the cannon round impacts. George spent the time cutting the beak off the monster, saying he planned to mount it above his door and spend his old age exaggerating the details of the battle. Two of Luther’s men drove the Humvees back and retrieved the Howitzers and the unused rounds.

Looting complete, they piled back into the vehicles and resumed their trip. It was past sunset when they arrived, and the gates to the Warren opened for them. The look on Ramon’s face as the convoy passed by him was priceless. After he closed the gates and caught up to them, he teased. “We send you away to retrieve a few strays, and you come back with an army!”

It was late in the evening before everyone was settled. Allistor’s first order of business had been to use the Stronghold interface to construct more sleeping quarters. He raised another fifteen, this time on the opposite side of the central fountain. He didn’t want to force the two groups to mingle on the first night. There were several couples and families among Luther’s group, so fifteen was sufficient to house everyone. Some of them were two and three bedrooms.

Meg took charge of gathering all of the turtle meat and getting it into cold storage. With literally hundreds of pieces of it, she was determined to experiment and create a tasty recipe that provided at least one buff.

Allistor’s people helped the newcomers unload their possessions and cart them into their new quarters. Thrilled to have company closer to her own age, Chloe insisted on introducing herself and hugging each of the children. Max was beside himself with all of the attention he was getting from the rugrats, which only lessened slightly when Chloe introduced them all to Beatrice and Thumper.

With the unloading done, they grabbed a quick meal, then put the children to bed. Some of the adults crashed too, having had a very long day.

Meg broke out a makeshift bar - opening several bottles of booze and setting out a case of cold beer. The two groups mingled, introducing themselves and chatting about little things, like the apocalypse.

George took a chair

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