The Dead Room by Walker Luke

Author:Walker, Luke [Walker, Luke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post=Apocalyptic | Horror
Publisher: HellBound Books Publishing
Published: 2019-04-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-One

N icola slid down the grass. The rustle of her clothes rubbing against the ground made her stop. Sound carried in the wind.

From the road, voices were audible. She’d seen a couple of them a moment before. A man and woman. It sounded as if there was a second man with them. Briefly, she’d hoped she’d made a mistake and the people on the road were Alan, Pat and Marie come to help her travel north. No chance of that, though. They’d be miles behind by now, and here she was in the grass, feet away from strangers.

Go away. Get back in your car and go away.

They didn’t. They’d come to a stop on the other side of the road after making their slow way past the accident and debris. Nicola heard the woman say the word bike and cursed herself for simply dropping her bike and not shoving it into the broken vehicles. Instead of her bike being part of the accident, it was clearly unmarked and undamaged by what had happened here.

One of them shifted metal aside and Nicola caught the little scrape as her bike frame rolled over the ground.

“Looks brand new.” The woman was speaking and Nicola did her best to name the emotions in the three words. She wanted to hear concern but caught only basic interest. There’d be no help here. But then she couldn’t rely on help in any case. Every person she met ended up dead.

She dug her fingers into the grass. The cold was back, caressing her skin, dancing over the fine hairs on her neck and arms.

Nicola shifted to look behind herself. The slope of grass met a wide field. The grass out there was already unkempt and messy. Standing on it probably a quarter of a mile from where Nicola lay, the little figure was a black smudge over the green.

“No,” Nicola whispered. “Go away. Leave me alone.”

It came toward her as if it was on wheels.

On the road, one of the men said: “We need to get moving. Come on.”

“We should have a look around.” The speaker was the other man. He sounded younger than the first. “Might be something we can take with us.”

“We haven’t got time. They’re not that far behind us.”

“Relax. They’re miles away.”

The voice of a young man impatient with an older one. Nicola chewed her lower lip and wished for the younger man to listen to the other guy.

Run, you idiots. Get out of here.

“John’s right,” the woman said. “I don’t want them finding us here. Not after yesterday.”

The shadow behind Nicola was still advancing over the green, still too far away for her to make out its face.

“We need food. We need water,” the younger man shouted. “Just give me a minute.”

“We won’t find anything here, Danny. It’s a mess. Come on.”

“Just give me a fucking minute,” Danny said. He shifted aside chunks of vehicle, swearing softly as he presumably found nothing but splatters of blood and no bodies.

Get out of here, she thought at them.

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