Double Dead
“Their mosquito whine barely heard, headlights obscured by the occasional bloom of dust.
None of this sat well with her. She felt like this was a detour, a terrible move away from their intended destination. Pig-Nose—who introduced himself as ‘Lieutenant Necro-Loco,’ or, just ‘Loco’—said they were headed southeast, which meant technically they were losing ground. Going backward. And they’d been driving for an hour already.
Coburn was nowhere to be found. He’d ditched them, she knew. Revenge for ...when they’d done the same to him. He was a callous creature, and she could easily imagine what was going through his head: hungry, he surely figured that his own herd was worthless. Five—well, six now with Danny—troublemakers who didn’t want him around. The breadth and depth of the 66 States, however, surely was home to any number of human beings. Human beings filled to the brim with so much blood. Why slum it with Kayla and the others? What did he care if they made it to Los Angeles?MoreLess
None of this sat well with her. She felt like this was a detour, a terrible move away from their intended destination. Pig-Nose—who introduced himself as ‘Lieutenant Necro-Loco,’ or, just ‘Loco’—said they were headed southeast, which meant technically they were losing ground. Going backward. And they’d been driving for an hour already.
Coburn was nowhere to be found. He’d ditched them, she knew. Revenge for ...when they’d done the same to him. He was a callous creature, and she could easily imagine what was going through his head: hungry, he surely figured that his own herd was worthless. Five—well, six now with Danny—troublemakers who didn’t want him around. The breadth and depth of the 66 States, however, surely was home to any number of human beings. Human beings filled to the brim with so much blood. Why slum it with Kayla and the others? What did he care if they made it to Los Angeles?MoreLess
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