Shatterbones by Robert Brown

Author:Robert Brown [Brown, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2017-02-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Internment Zone #758

Wyoming

Quick splashes are made by the small feet quickly crossing the muddy yard. Julie Moore is rushing to let President Thomas know he has a visitor.

“Mr. President, she’s here.”

“Who is here?”

“It’s the one they call The Angel.”

“Great, some bleach-skinned mutant that wants to take even more away from us? Maybe you should speak with her if you are so excited about it.”

“Mr. President, you have to speak with her, she is here specifically to see you.”

“Why do you still call me that? We have no country left. There are no free people to serve and I have no power.”

“She calls you that because that is who you are, Mr. President.” The pale winged woman speaks to him standing in the doorway to President Thomas’ room.

The beauty of the vampire the people call The Angel has not been exaggerated. She stands tall at 6 feet 6 inches with her head nearly touching the door frames top. She is wearing all white, which in contrast gives her skin a warmer pink color, and she has a friendlier feel than the vampires that like to wear dark colors or black. President James Thomas is taken aback by what his mind can only identify as magnificence.

The Angel smiles at the president. “May I come in?”

James stands and looks from his aid back to the winged beauty and hesitates before squaring his shoulders and standing taller than he has for months. “This isn’t my property, it is controlled by the mutants of this area. I cannot deny you entry if you wish it.”

“And I am asking your permission still.”

“Then come in…”

“Cora, you can call me Cora.”

“Come in, Cora, and have a seat.”

President Thomas sits in a chair and motions to a comfortable loveseat for Cora to sit. She walks over, spreads her wings out and slowly lowers herself to the cushions. Her wings then flutter and fold up behind her over the back of the small sofa.

“I don’t mean to make a show of my wings, sir. I have been told it is intimidating to some. I cannot sit down comfortably otherwise, I hope you understand.”

*

Word has spread of The Angel’s arrival and the residents of this internment area are gathering outside the president’s building by the hundreds.

“I heard she has come to kill him,” one person whispers.

“They are trying to take away the last person that means something to us,” another person says quite loudly.

*

“President Thomas, you believe you no longer have power and that your position is a meaningless one. You should not give up, I am here specifically because you are wrong. You were not elected by the people but you are still the president and the citizens of this nation look to you for council and guidance. The weekly addresses you have been giving to your internment group have also been broadcast to hundreds of other zones and areas around the country.

“They are powerful, have meaning, and have given the people of this nation hope. In fact, there

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