Plague of the Undead
“Their evenings were usually filled with the yelling and laughing of the free men from the far side of the caravan. The Family liked to drink, and they got rowdy once the sun went down. But that evening was the first quiet one Jacob had heard. There was no singing, no fighting, no drunken fornicating. None of the normal noises. A sort of cowed quiet pervaded the community, as though everyone was stunned by the death of a mother and child and laid low by the surprise of it.
To Jacob, that seemed ...ironic.
He wondered how a people so eager to cause the deaths of others could be stunned by the death of one of their own.
It seemed like an exercise in hubris to him. But then, that didn’t shock him. Mother Jane and her Boys were barbarians. Surely they had no trouble believing the world revolved around them.
Yet, hadn’t he been the same, just a few days ago?
That thought caused him some disquiet. As a lifelong citizen of Arbella, he’d known a life of comfort and confidence that all around him shared the Code.MoreLess
To Jacob, that seemed ...ironic.
He wondered how a people so eager to cause the deaths of others could be stunned by the death of one of their own.
It seemed like an exercise in hubris to him. But then, that didn’t shock him. Mother Jane and her Boys were barbarians. Surely they had no trouble believing the world revolved around them.
Yet, hadn’t he been the same, just a few days ago?
That thought caused him some disquiet. As a lifelong citizen of Arbella, he’d known a life of comfort and confidence that all around him shared the Code.MoreLess
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