by Lukens, Mark
Things were going very well, but Ray couldn’t help thinking about the future. Yes, Avalon was a good place to get through the winter, but could they really stay here forever? He saw the Dragon’s vision to some degree, a walled town, a new civilization, starting over. It would take years, but living here at Avalon would give them those years to plan and years for the ripper numbers to dwindle. He decided to begin scouting a location to rebuild as soon as it got warmer.
There had been a few problems, reports from Luke and Petra when they’d come back from their supply runs. They had spotted a few groups of Dark Angels, men and women left over from Hell Town, but they weren’t as organized as before—they were just small groups of people staying together, trying to survive in packs.
Luke and Petra had also seen clean, gleaming white skulls posted on wooden poles in a few places between Avalon and Hell Town—the same kind of thing Ray had seen outside the house they had stayed the night in before finding Avalon. Whoever the Skull People were, whatever they were . . . whether or not they were cannibals as Josh had suggested, Ray still had to consider them a threat. Maybe not a threat now, but maybe in the future. Ray would always keep that in the back of his mind.
The rippers were still out there. The cold hadn’t killed off as many of them as Ray had expected. The rippers had learned to adapt, much as early human beings might have done during the Ice Age. Ray had written down Gerald's explanations of the Ripper Plague, as much as he could remember, anyway. Kate typed it up for him and put it into a notebook. Anyone was free to read what Ray had written down, but everyone was also free to make up their own mind about what it all meant. Gerald had claimed he and other scientists had found changes in the DNA of all humans, changes that had been waiting all this time in humanity . . .
. . . and now humanity was starting over. Maybe humanity was getting a second chance. Ray was going to do his best to make sure that he, and the others with him, didn’t waste this second chance.
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
Thank you so much for reading my book. This is the last book in the Dark Days series, and I hope you enjoyed reading this series as much as I enjoyed writing it. Although this is the last in this series, I do have thoughts of a spinoff series, something set ten or fifteen years in the future, following Mike’s story and introducing many new characters. I would love to hear your thoughts on that, if you would be interested in a spinoff series. I’m also working on a few other post-apocalyptic series, along with many other standalone books and short stories.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Lukens has been writing since the second grade when his teacher called his parents in for a conference because she was a little concerned about the ghost story he’d written.
Since then he’s had several stories published and four screenplays optioned by producers in Hollywood. He’s the author of many bestselling books including: the Ancient Enemy series, the Dark Days series, Sleep Disorders, Sightings, Followed, The Exorcist’s Apprentice, Devil’s Island, and many others. He’s proud to be a member of the Horror Writers Association.
He grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida. But after many travels and adventures, he settled down near Tampa, Florida with his wonderful wife and son . . . and a stray cat they adopted (two of them now).
He loves to hear from readers! Feel free to contact him at: [email protected]
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