UKD3: UK Dark Series Book 3 by Chris Harris

Author:Chris Harris [Harris, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DHP Publishing
Published: 2017-06-24T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

As soon as they were back on the ground, we all moved outside to escape the smell.

The two children still looked terrified. This was understandable. Aside from Harry, the rest of us were still wearing masks. We must have looked like beings from another planet.

Up close, we could see that the children were in poor condition. They were filthy from head to toe. Their tear- streaked faces were covered in grime and their hair was badly matted. They looked so small and vulnerable, standing before us and holding hands, it would have taken a very hard heart not to have softened at the sight of them.

Isaac stuck as close as possible to Harry. As we sat down, someone started to boil a kettle on a camping stove so that we could all have a hot drink. Then, as gently as possible, we managed to draw out most of their story.

The disease had spread rapidly through the tight-knit community.

Just two days after the first case, everyone had been either ill, dying or dead. Lottie and Isaac were the only ones without symptoms.

As young as they were, they had tried their best to help but they had lost everyone who mattered to them. Too young to understand or to know what to do, they had stayed on there.

They had moved to the other end of the warehouse, away from the corpses, and made a little area to live and sleep in. Isaac had done his best to look after Lottie.

Two days before our arrival, they were woken by the sound of voices. Thinking that someone was coming to help, they hurried to meet them.

The people they encountered were not rescuers. They were four men in masks, and they were searching the bodies for anything of value. Realising that something was wrong, Isaac stopped short, but before he could grab her, Lottie squeezed past him and ran right up to them.

Isaac stayed hidden and watched in horror as she was slapped, grabbed and tied up. Too young to comprehend what the men were saying they were going to do to her, but fully understanding that her life was in danger, he sprinted back to their den.

He was a smart boy and had already gathered up all the weapons the community had and put them in a safe place away from his sister. He had been scared she might hurt herself if she found one and accidentally fired it.

He had spent many hours watching the adults handle the weapons, and he knew what to do. Grabbing the one he was most familiar with, he picked up two loaded magazines. He put one in his pocket and inserted the other one into the gun and pulled the charging handle.

The sight of Isaac walking towards them, pointing a gun and shouting in his squeaky voice that they were to let his sister go momentarily shocked the three men.

Then they burst out laughing, not believing he would have the guts to pull the trigger or that he would even know how to load a gun.

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