Solar Storm: A Post Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (Sky Fall Book 3) by Logan Keys

Author:Logan Keys [Keys, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-15T16:00:00+00:00

It wasn't going to ever be forgotten. They’d walk out. Together. Perhaps to their death.

She for him, and he for her. Had there even been a more unlikely pair of friends?

Clive wasn’t sure what it was. Maybe it was because he was desperate for a rainbow and the sky wasn’t going to host them anymore. And Siri was a walking bit of color in a world of gray. Maybe it was because she’d saved his life by pulling him up from the Los Angeles asphalt.

It was ineffable.

“Don’t breathe yet,” he said, his voice shaking. The shock was still there around him like a cloak. The first thing he noticed was the cold. If the air didn’t kill them, hanging like a low fog over everything, muting the atmosphere, the cold would.

He hunched at the gusts of wind and told her again, “Don’t breathe yet.”

But she clutched his hand in hers.

“No.” The mask removed all of the sardonic youth, stripped it away until a robotic survivor took its place. Her eyes peeked out from within the plastic, not being able to hide from the sadness behind dark glasses anymore. “No, it’s fine. See?”

But she was just as afraid as he was. What had they done? What were they thinking?

Instead of taking a step backwards, they took a few forward. Shapes in the fog were eerie and still.

They began walking, breathing in and out through the filters, knowing perhaps that the masks wouldn’t be enough. But as they crested the hill once more, overlooking the city, where they shared a glance that said, Well, this is it, but at least I'm not alone.

“Should we go down?”

“I think so,” she said. “Why not?”

Yeah. Why not? What could they lose?

In truth, humanity was many things, but curiosity was a deeply motivating factor. Perhaps it was what created the search for fire that first time. And maybe love, whenever that initial feeling was birthed.

Clive would be lying if he said he didn’t want to see what was left, even if it was terrible. Even if it was more fire than it was love left in the belly of the beast, he wanted to see it. He raged inside and the earth shuddered beneath his feet as if in answer.

“I didn’t think about earthquakes,” Siri said.

“Asteroids.”

“Well, now that you mention it…” She laughed but it was muted and dead. “Tidal wave.” It was a game now. Clive was thankful for the distraction and realized the shaking had stopped.

He thought for a moment. “Tornadoes.”

“Plague of locusts.” She crossed her arms.

“Good one,” he said taking a step forward. “Water into blood.”

“Rivers. Rivers of it,” she said softly. “Volcanoes.”

“I uh…can’t beat that.” A line of sweat dripped down his back though the air was freezing. He hugged himself against the wind. “Ice storm.”

“You think?”

“No. I was saying…” And just like that, a snowflake appeared.

Clive pulled off his jacket and gave it to Siri. She’d left hers covered in his blood back at the bunker. They walked in silence after that.

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