The Savage Boy
“The smoke of meat came to him on the wind of the next day, in the morning, before light.
At first light, he scanned the horizon and saw, across the bay, the columns of rising smoke. He checked the map. Sausalito.
He’d spent the day before combing the wreckage of the Army. There was nothing to be had. Everything that was left had burned long ago. When he went to the cemetery below the ridge, he found bones in the bottom of each open grave. Nothing more.
Maybe there is someone, maybe ...even I Corps, over there on the other side of the bay, Sergeant?
But there was no answer.
Someone was there.
Later he rode out to the north, crossing large sections of muddy bay where ancient supertankers rested on their sides. Occasionally he passed large craters.
At the northern edge of the bay, mudflats gave way to the tall brown grass of the estuaries.MoreLess
At first light, he scanned the horizon and saw, across the bay, the columns of rising smoke. He checked the map. Sausalito.
He’d spent the day before combing the wreckage of the Army. There was nothing to be had. Everything that was left had burned long ago. When he went to the cemetery below the ridge, he found bones in the bottom of each open grave. Nothing more.
Maybe there is someone, maybe ...even I Corps, over there on the other side of the bay, Sergeant?
But there was no answer.
Someone was there.
Later he rode out to the north, crossing large sections of muddy bay where ancient supertankers rested on their sides. Occasionally he passed large craters.
At the northern edge of the bay, mudflats gave way to the tall brown grass of the estuaries.MoreLess
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