much to do.”
Harold saw the ring on his left hand and felt a stab of despair rise up in him as he thought of Sara. The ring shined amid all the dirt and the scattered damage to Adam’s skin.
“You two got married I see?”
Adam brought up his hand and danced his fingers with pride before Harold’s face. The ring glowed in the wave of his movement and the glow had the effect of dispelling all his grief as he grinned with the undying bliss of someone in love, “She consented. It was a short ceremony but a memorable one. We took a lot of flak for wanting to be married, but whatever happens happens, right? We’ll still have each other.”
Like someone blindly snatched into the throes of love he was unaware of the effect he was having on Harold.
“So, there’s no end to your betrayal.”
Adam darted his eyes at his old friend in a tumult of confusion that turned to anger, “I didn’t betray anyone, least of all you. This was for the good of all of us. I can’t help it if you’re too thick-headed to understand that.”
“And who’s this ‘us’ Adam? Where are they?”
Adam became furious, lifting and pointing his rifle at Harold with menace.
“And where were you?! Tell me that coward!”
Harold eyed the nozzle that was pointed at his face and didn’t flinch.
“Go ahead, shoot me, if that’s the only thing you know to do.”
Adam sneered and lowered the rifle, pushing Harold away from him, “Go on, get out of my sight! You make me sick!”
Harold stood there for a moment before giving up. In his mind he could hear and feel the blast as if he was reliving it over and over again. It would never leave him, all those people who died trying to protect him, but he couldn’t express how he felt to Adam. Adam had names for people like him and he was through listening.
As he left Colder Avenue he happened to run into an ongoing battle being waged in the main section of the city. Both the changed and unchanged were armed and fighting at full bore intensity, unafraid and assured of their cause, yet the unchanged were outnumbered and in amongst the fighting a giant golden spider roamed and pounced on the newly dead to feed and to give encouragement to its troops. Living or dead, it thrived on the energy humans could provide and while Harold saw the spider the sunbies saw a golden man praying over the dead.
The horrific sight laid waste on Harold’s soul. So much had changed in two months but he should have known this was the way it was going to be, he had seen it in his grandmother’s vision. Yet imagining such a possibility wasn’t the same as seeing it. Seth was right, they didn’t have much time.
A rifle shot cut close by. He could hear the zing of the bullet zip past him shattering a window. He leaned in to catch a sniper on the shopping plaza’s roof and swiftly sped for cover as another bullet grazed the brick cornice of a building he took cover in. He’d have to get out of there real quick or he would become one of the dead being chopped to bits and tossed into the belly of that monster. There was no rest for anyone, even the dead. But getting out from his hiding place proved harder than getting in and once out he had to zigzag like mad and use the vehicles on the street for additional cover but he finally found an alley then a cross street that got him out of the mess though he was out of breath when he was finished and had to rest.
CHAPTER 10
Seth said that Liam could come with them if he wanted to and Harold felt he owed his uncle the chance to decide even if he wasn’t sure the old man was capable of leaving what had become his full time sanctuary. Harold would have to convince him somehow. After all he was the only family Harold had left. Yet as he stood in front of the bar and looked up at the windows something was nagging at him. He couldn’t figure out what it was but something was telling him to turn around and go, to leave before it was too late, and when he later
Harold saw the ring on his left hand and felt a stab of despair rise up in him as he thought of Sara. The ring shined amid all the dirt and the scattered damage to Adam’s skin.
“You two got married I see?”
Adam brought up his hand and danced his fingers with pride before Harold’s face. The ring glowed in the wave of his movement and the glow had the effect of dispelling all his grief as he grinned with the undying bliss of someone in love, “She consented. It was a short ceremony but a memorable one. We took a lot of flak for wanting to be married, but whatever happens happens, right? We’ll still have each other.”
Like someone blindly snatched into the throes of love he was unaware of the effect he was having on Harold.
“So, there’s no end to your betrayal.”
Adam darted his eyes at his old friend in a tumult of confusion that turned to anger, “I didn’t betray anyone, least of all you. This was for the good of all of us. I can’t help it if you’re too thick-headed to understand that.”
“And who’s this ‘us’ Adam? Where are they?”
Adam became furious, lifting and pointing his rifle at Harold with menace.
“And where were you?! Tell me that coward!”
Harold eyed the nozzle that was pointed at his face and didn’t flinch.
“Go ahead, shoot me, if that’s the only thing you know to do.”
Adam sneered and lowered the rifle, pushing Harold away from him, “Go on, get out of my sight! You make me sick!”
Harold stood there for a moment before giving up. In his mind he could hear and feel the blast as if he was reliving it over and over again. It would never leave him, all those people who died trying to protect him, but he couldn’t express how he felt to Adam. Adam had names for people like him and he was through listening.
As he left Colder Avenue he happened to run into an ongoing battle being waged in the main section of the city. Both the changed and unchanged were armed and fighting at full bore intensity, unafraid and assured of their cause, yet the unchanged were outnumbered and in amongst the fighting a giant golden spider roamed and pounced on the newly dead to feed and to give encouragement to its troops. Living or dead, it thrived on the energy humans could provide and while Harold saw the spider the sunbies saw a golden man praying over the dead.
The horrific sight laid waste on Harold’s soul. So much had changed in two months but he should have known this was the way it was going to be, he had seen it in his grandmother’s vision. Yet imagining such a possibility wasn’t the same as seeing it. Seth was right, they didn’t have much time.
A rifle shot cut close by. He could hear the zing of the bullet zip past him shattering a window. He leaned in to catch a sniper on the shopping plaza’s roof and swiftly sped for cover as another bullet grazed the brick cornice of a building he took cover in. He’d have to get out of there real quick or he would become one of the dead being chopped to bits and tossed into the belly of that monster. There was no rest for anyone, even the dead. But getting out from his hiding place proved harder than getting in and once out he had to zigzag like mad and use the vehicles on the street for additional cover but he finally found an alley then a cross street that got him out of the mess though he was out of breath when he was finished and had to rest.
CHAPTER 10
Seth said that Liam could come with them if he wanted to and Harold felt he owed his uncle the chance to decide even if he wasn’t sure the old man was capable of leaving what had become his full time sanctuary. Harold would have to convince him somehow. After all he was the only family Harold had left. Yet as he stood in front of the bar and looked up at the windows something was nagging at him. He couldn’t figure out what it was but something was telling him to turn around and go, to leave before it was too late, and when he later
Similar Books
