by North, Geoff
The woman held her hand out to Angela. “My name’s Caitlan. Sorry we got off to such a rough start. I’ve run into a lot of assholes since the world went to shit.”
Angela shook her hand. “I’m Angela. The two back there are Amanda and Michael. And don’t apologize. I’ve met a few undesirables along the way as well.”
Caitlan chuckled. “Undesirables... That’s another way of putting it.”
“You’re going the wrong way,” Michael said.
She looked at him in the rear-view mirror. “What way am I supposed to be going?”
Amanda answered. “West. We were going west.”
“What difference does it make? West, east, north, south. It’s all the same.”
Purple lightning forked through the sky ahead of them. The thunder that followed a moment later shook the car. Caitlan slowed down and turned around in the middle of the highway.
“This lane’s one way only,” Michael said. “You should cross over into the other one at the next exit.”
“I don’t think we’ll be running into much traffic tonight.” Caitlin weaved between an abandoned bus and trashed half-ton. She pressed down on the accelerator when the way was clear and the four sped off into the dark, driving west ahead of the storm.
Chapter 9
“Come on, you have to help me out.”
“Give me a fucking break, would you? I just got run over by a car.”
“No, you were sideswiped by the mirror,” Louie said. They’d wasted enough time just getting Roy to stand up. It seemed to take an eternity for him to get back into his underwear. He had helped the giant up through two levels of parkade, but it wasn’t fast enough for Louie’s liking. He had seen the dark mist creeping along the floor towards the hotel manager’s corpse.
How did they escape from the tenth level of the DSC? There aren’t many better sealed off places anywhere on earth.
There was still time, Louie figured. The ticks could travel quickly, but they were microscopic. Louie and his new-found friend could keep ahead of them if they maintained a steady pace.
But it wasn’t just the ticks Louie was worried about. He had seen what they were capable of doing when they’d infested Richard Sheffield’s dead body. Louie had seen it again when the grey swarm crawled over Marie Hodgkin’s corpse as well. Roy hadn’t noticed—he was too busy with his aches and pains to notice the woman’s body when it started to swell. Roy didn’t see her fat fingers start to twitch.
They had to keep ahead of the swarm. They could outrun the ticks, but they would have a difficult time staying clear of the human hosts the ticks inhabited. And there were plenty of hosts to inhabit.
Living and dead.
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