The Dawn: Omnibus edition (box set books 1-5) by Michelle Muckley

Author:Michelle Muckley [Muckley, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-12-20T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty Four

When they arrived back in Basement Level One, Zack helped to pull Pederson from the van. They shifted him onto a stretcher before he was spirited away by eager Comrades. Dr. Watson was on hand, but he looked flustered, and was yelling something about the need for a transfer. Zack wasn’t paying much attention.

Nielsen and Lund, the only other survivors from the trip to Gamma Tower were encouraged into waiting wheelchairs. A gaggle of Comrades attempted to make their regulatory checks, but the nurses got the better of them and soon had the chairs heading towards the health centre. Duke was standing to the side of the van answering some preliminary questions. Two other Comrades tried to get Zack to sit in a waiting chair. They insisted that he required medical attention. But all Zack wanted to do was disappear from their company, get to his room and shut everything and everybody else out. He peeled away his orange boiler suit and stepped out of the thick Wellington boots whilst one of the nurses tended to a cut that Zack had sustained over his left eyebrow. Zack brushed the fidgeting hands away from his face and made his way towards the exit door. He slipped back into his uniform and left the gaggle of activity behind him.

“Zack,” somebody called. Zack turned, following the voice. It was Duke, calling him by his real name. Duke gave a solemn nod of his head in a way that Zack was certain acted as acknowledgement that he owed Zack his life. Zack didn't know if trading the person he used to be in an effort to save Duke was worth it yet.

What Zack was certain of was the fact that news regarding the demise of Gamma Tower had begun to spread. As the lift ascended he caught a view towards the east, and the glow on the horizon looked like sunrise at the break of day. Perhaps it was just because he knew it was there. Perhaps he was imagining it. But when he stepped from the lift on Level Seventeen and saw the crowd at the window looking east, he knew that they were staring at the smouldering remains of what was once Gamma Tower.

Zack stepped back into the lift and rode it until level sixty nine. He stepped out and climbed the stairs to the viewing level. The gentle hum of the wind was softer today as it breezed past the exposed openings. He hadn’t been here since the first day with Simon. He didn’t have to try hard to find the remains of Gamma Tower, but where he wanted to look was past that. When he couldn’t find what he was looking for behind the flames and the smoke he tried to imagine Canvey Island, separated from the mainland and protected from the sea by the flood defences. He sat for a while, cross-legged like a child on the floor. He stared at his reflection on the glass. Who

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