The Ranch: Evolutions by Sean Liscom

Author:Sean Liscom [Liscom, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sort3
Publisher: Creative Texts Publishers, LLC
Published: 2021-06-21T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

January 18th, 2023.

“We can’t fight,” Eddy finally said after our return to the warming fire. The first hints of daylight were intruding on the darkness from the east. “That’s why we scare people and that’s why we stay in hiding.”

“I’m not asking you to fight. All I’m telling you is that you need to make this place less appealing for anyone who might try and call it home. If it looks like a spooky place that’s filled with the ghosts of the past, all the better.”

“But our scare tactics didn’t work on you, you said it yourself.”

“I’ve never bought into the whole ghost thing. Never. All your tactics did the other night was annoy the hell out of me. I gotta tell you this too; If you’d have tried to break into the office, you might have given Dawson a heart attack, but I’d just have shot a couple of ya and Juno would have torn a couple more of you to pieces.”

“When you didn’t take off, Jeremy wanted to break the door down. He’s always been a little more aggressive than me.”

“How long have you known him?”

“We grew up together. His family lived across the street. Known him as long as I can remember.”

“Does he listen to you?”

“For the most part.”

“Good. Then maybe you can convince him that you guys need to up your spook game.”

“Maybe. You keep talking about this, but you haven’t told me what we need to do,” he looked me dead in the eye.

“If I take the time to lay it all out for you, are you going to follow through?”

“Yeah, we will.”

“Alright then. If it were me, the first thing I would do is make most of the valuable stuff disappear. Over the course of about an hour last night I filled a bag with things most people would see as valuable. Those are things you can use too, and it just wouldn’t do to have somebody come in here and take off with all of it.”

“We already took all the food that we could find,” he said.

“I’m not talking about just the food. I’m talking about clothes, sleeping bags, tools. Ya know, everything that you already use and need. You need to gather all of that up and then distribute it to several different locations that only you guys know about. That way, if someone comes in here, they don’t find anything interesting and they quickly move on. The other advantage that will give you is that you know where everything is and know how to get to it quickly.”

“You need to set up each cache so that it can support all of you for a little bit of time. Doing that will buy you the time you need to let the interlopers move on and you won’t have to stick your heads out. You can stay hidden and know that everything is safe. Hopefully, if they don’t find anything readily available, they won’t be here long. The longer you can stay hidden, the more you can decrease your exposure.

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