The Mountain by Patrick T. Nelson

Author:Patrick T. Nelson [Nelson, Patrick T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2018-10-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Dav scratched her greasy head. Lice.

“They say…That is, I’ve heard it said, that it is ‘Better to have loved and lost than never loved at all.’ I don’t know. I just DON’T know.”

Dav laid on the floor of her communications room. She’d been on a marathon radio spree, contacting all the locations in California she’d provided for Sal’s journey. She informed them that anyone who collaborated with him would be destroyed. Utterly destroyed. Maybe she’d killed Sal in Clovis, but knowing how smart and handsome Sal was – he’d probably escaped.

She imagined capturing him and bringing him to Victoria. She would convert him to a begetter. He would improve the genepool considerably. Bring about immunity. The thought tickled her.

“Thinking that he escaped only makes me want him more! Oh, I wish my female mother were still alive to explain how these men work. I shouldn’t care! I shouldn’t care! But Sal was different. At least I thought he was. Can I send something feral to pounce on him and eat him, Dave? Oh yes, you aren’t here.”

Dav’s Cruise Missile Targeting Specialist came in per Dav’s orders. Dav sat up and crossed her legs to sit on the floor. The targeting specialist, Mimi, sat down in the same fashion, facing Dav.

“Have you ever loved, Mimi?”

“No. I once liked a boy, but that was before I had committed to no breeding.”

“I know I’m not supposed to like him…them…the boys, but I do. He tricked me. Now I’m sad. Yes, sad.”

“That’s who we targeted?” Mimi asked.

“Yes, in that place called Clovis. That’s why you’re here. Are you here?”

“Yes.”

“Sal…Ohmygosh, I just hate saying his name. It hurts. Poor Dav.”

“It will pass with time,” Mimi assured.

“Sal provided us imagery of a number of locations, to include those cities in California he was travelling to. Did he give us imagery of anywhere else?”

“That was it. That’s all we have.”

“FUNNY! That’s how the living life works. We have cruise missiles, but no means to launch them, because we have no imagery. How did we launch missiles before? We didn’t! We weren’t sad. Then I met Sal. He gave us imagery to use the cruise missiles. Then we could use missiles. Now, Sal is mean, and we can’t use missiles again. We were better off before getting the imagery. We didn’t know what we were missing. Because now, NOW, I love the missiles. They do stuff, and do it well. I can’t imagine not being able to use them.”

“It’s true,” Mimi replied. “They are a nice capability. But now we’ve lost it…unless we can get imagery.”

“But Sal has hurt me so, and now I’ve tried to kill him, or maybe even I have. There is too much pain surrounding the imagery. It’s connected to him, and him to the images, and I can’t abide them because of him. Get it?”

“Then can we get his source of the imagery?”

“I mean, I guess. I don’t know where it is, is the only thing. It’s in a place called Los Alamos but I don’t know why, or who, or how…I know where that is, though.

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