Zombie Ocean (Book 2): The Lost by Grist Michael John

Author:Grist, Michael John [Grist, Michael John]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Zombie Apocalypse
Published: 2015-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

INTERLUDE 1

He left the land behind and walked into the water.

The cold and the current didn't affect him. There were others of his kind swarming on all sides, each pulsing as a source of heat on his skin and mapping out the flow of thousands.

The little girl clung to his neck as the waterline closed over his head and his lungs filled up. Waves pushed him back but the water in his chest held him down. The girl cried out then went silent as the water covered her too.

He walked on, ignoring her thrashing and pulling, until soon she released him. Every step carried him deeper down a declining sandy bed, away from her. Dust floated in the water before him, lit by his glowing white eyes. Tiny fish flitted back and forth, and he bit at them when they came close to his gray lips. He chewed and swallowed those he caught, fuelling him, and trudged ahead.

She was gone.

He felt her still as a warmth in his chest. Her presence pressed to his chest had made him stronger every day. She had made them all strong, the others like him, but none so much as him. Her heat had passed into him, so even now they all clustered close, following him, gaining strength to face the growing cold together.

Already he could feel it. It was so far off but it only grew stronger and colder every day.

He walked toward it, deeper down the sloping sand through the water. The sense of her behind him faded and all that remained was the warmth driving him on. There was a kind of sadness for this, of something lost, though his simple mind could not articulate what it meant. It was simply the end of one phase and the beginning of another in his existence, like a butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. The cold drew him forward and the heat drove him on.

The water grew darker. The ground underfoot became harder. The surface was very far above now and he was very alone, but he could feel the heat of his brothers and sisters spreading around him. He made them strong and they made him strong in turn. His chest felt pleasantly full. He walked down into blackness.

Strange memories popped in his slow mind. There was the little girl lying in bed and crying. There were flying birdwomen who swam in the air above a deep green forest canopy. There was a woman he'd once known so well who left for reasons he couldn't remember.

The water became cold and heavy. It was harder to walk with every step forward. His eyes illuminated only the motes of dust before him. A great creature swam by, lithe and smooth-skinned, with one large gray fin projecting upwards. The backwash from its powerful tail knocked him sideways, but the firmness of the water kept him on his feet.

Somewhere to his right he glimpsed it open its vast mouth and bite down on one of his brothers. He turned and his flock turned with him, adjusting course smoothly and without thought.

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