Until the End of the World Box Set by Sarah Lyons Fleming

Author:Sarah Lyons Fleming [Fleming, Sarah Lyons]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2019-09-28T04:00:00+00:00

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The ride to Montpelier is over an hour, but we take a longer route in order to avoid Morristown. Most of the gas and food were cleaned out of there late last fall, but there were a good number of Lexers due to the treatment area the government set up. Thankfully, Vermont wasn’t very populated, except for the city of Burlington and its surrounding areas. We don’t know how many Lexers are in Burlington or what the roads are like; no one ventured that far last summer. Gas is running low, however, and without Will’s patrols to supply us through the summer, we might find out about Burlington soon. We have enough diesel to have begun work on the trench that’s being dug around the farm, but probably not enough for the whole job.

We usually take two vehicles on patrol. It gives us more room for supplies, and a spare vehicle if one breaks down. I try not to rewrite history, but I can’t help but think that if we’d all come back from Whitefield together Adrian would be sitting next to me now.

Peter and Ana sit in the front of the pickup while we follow Dan and the others. Peter refused to let Ana drive, much to my relief and her chagrin. It’s warm for mid-May, and the sweet spring air flows in the open windows. The grass is green, and the overgrown fields are a tangle of brown stalks that were bent double under the snow’s weight. I wonder how long it will take before it’s reclaimed by forest. A hundred or more years ago, much of Vermont was cleared for farmland, and the woods are still crisscrossed with rock walls the farmers built around what were once open fields. One day it will be rock walls, houses and cars in the middle of forest.

We roll through Albany at a snail’s pace while I write down the addresses of houses with large propane tanks for future use. A few raggedy Lexers hit the two-lane road after we pass, but they give up once we’re a good distance away. A Lexer completely covered in black moss crawls along the shoulder before falling in a heap and going motionless.

“Ew.” Ana screws up her face. “Did you see that one?”

It was gross, but it also looked like it was dying. It gives me hope that something besides us is after them; we only have to hold out long enough for it to happen. It’s something to look forward to, but a world without Lexers will still be a world without Adrian.

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