Uprising by Adrienne Lecter

Author:Adrienne Lecter [Lecter, Adrienne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2019-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“Any idea how long this will take?” I wanted to know, hard-pressed to keep the frustration out of my voice.

Eight days. I’d spent eight entire days in the settlement at the California coast already, and still we were biding our time, with no real progress made. The first day or two had been a nice respite, and a much needed one at that—also to catch up with the rest of my friends—but now every hour that passed without us hitting the road grated on my nerves. Consequently, my annoyed pacing grated on the Ice Queen’s nerves, which was never a good idea.

Like the four times before that we’d had this conversation, her emotional range ran from annoyed to vexed, and a slightly homicidal edge had started leaking into the mix. “As I told you before, we cannot rush into this, unless you want us all to end up dead? Missions take preparation!” she reminded me, none too patiently, I might add. “And we’re still waiting for more detailed intel, and without enough ammo and suitable vehicles we won’t get very far, either.”

I raised both my hands in a mute show that I wasn’t blaming her for any of this, but that didn’t change anything. That she shared my torment only made it worse, not better. At least we’d heard back from a few of her contacts, adding eight more people to our not-so-merry band of misfits—providing the last four made it to us, but at least they were en route. Me included, that made eighteen—which wasn’t that bad a number, but came with its own issues.

“How is it possible that you can only allocate three cars?” I asked, also not for the first time. “We had over fifteen working vehicles when we left for the Silo that late fall! Nate and I fucking built our buggies almost from scratch! And now you tell me we, what? Have to walk almost two thousand miles across the country?”

Pia’s eyes narrowed, and I knew I’d gone that one step too far—but somehow she managed not to come after me and punch me in the face. Her glare almost accomplished the feat but I did my best to steel my spine and not let her intimidate me. That had, for sure, changed over the past years—feeling like I was actually Nate’s equal had put an end to my already sketchy view on accepting anyone else’s authority. I had no intention of going toe-to-toe with her—and she was, by far, the most capable XO and logistics officer I’d ever met, and that wasn’t anything I was going to contend with her for—but all this stalling and “can’t do” attitude was slowly getting the best of me.

“We have vehicles,” she informed me, her tone biting but less aggressive than I’d expected. “But only three that will make it two thousand miles without needing maintenance or other kinds of fuel we will not find on the road, or that would be sorely missed here.” Her eyes narrowed, and I fully expected her to chew me out next, but instead she looked actually chagrined.

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