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Axler, James - Earth Blood 02 - Deep Trek.htm from a combat reflex to the butt
of the six-shot Ruger Blackhawk Hunter .44 at his hip, then he shuddered when
he glimpsed his daughter. This was how far he'd come with the sweep of
events an unquestioning readiness to shoot and kill, without any thought or
weighing of right and wrong.
"It's only me, Dad."
"Made me jump, kitten."
"Dad!" she said reproachfully.
"Sorry, love. Keep forgetting you don't like your old pet-name now."
The slender girl knelt and methodically stacked the armful of wood at the edge
of the fire to help dry it out. She was already learning vital techniques of
survival in this desolate new world. Jim caught a flicker of his dead wife in
his daughter's face, in the way she frowned in concentration. His wife, Lori,
buried in the garden of their home below the huge Hollywood sign, his other
daughter, Andrea, twin to Heather, lying in the damp earth alongside her.
"You wondering about the others, Dad?"
"Yeah. Kind of running over what's been happening in my mind. Trying not to
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lose control of any of it. One day someone might want to know all about what
went down for us."
His fingers rested in the tangled fronds of dead lichen and some small-leafed
ivy.
Jim plucked them up and stared at them, seeing the pallid pink color of the
dried plants.
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"Fish is nearly done, Dad."
"Sure thing. Don't burn your fingers on it."
Heather glanced at her father with a look of infinite scorn. "Been cooking
like this for weeks, Dad. Do you think I'm dumb?"
"No, of course not."
He was fumbling with the fish, partly charred and partly raw, when Heather
asked, "You think Nanci was really a teacher, Dad?"
Heather had finished her trout and licked her fingers, then wiped them on the
leg of her jeans. Jim noticed that it had started to snow again, tiny feathers
drifting down through the looming branches of the giant trees around them.
"I think she may have been once. What made you think about her?"
The girl grinned. "I knew you were wondering about everyone. She's the one
that seems real odd. You know about her and Jeff Thomas, Dad?"
Yeah, he knew, but he hadn't known that the girl had known assuming she was
talking about what he thought she was talking about.
"Her and Jeff, love?" he said, stalling for time.
"Sure. You must've seen it, Dad."
"What?" His cheeks were beginning to flush at the line the conversation had
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"Weirdly weird."
"The way she orders him around?"
Heather snorted with laughter. "That what they call it, Dad? Just ordering
around? I seen them two or three times. He was like a slave in some porno
vids.
Doing everything she told him to. Licked her boots and stuff."
Jim decided that it would be better if he didn't probe too deeply into what
his eleven-year-old daughter understood by "and stuff." He also wondered when
Heather had been watching any porno vids. But also decided to let that lie.
"I guess both of them could have been chilled by now," he said.
"Won't cry for shit-for-brains Jeff."
"Guess nobody really liked him that much."
"No. Had a teacher in third grade, Miss Leventhal, used to say that everyone
had a bit of good in them. Jeff didn't. I reckoned he was the sort of person
who was a bully to people weaker than him and a coward with anyone stronger."
"Nanci was certainly stronger than Jeff," agreed Jim. "Fact is, she was
probably stronger than most anyone. Can't really believe she's bought the
farm."
"Maybe they'll all turn up first thing tomorrow morning," Heather said without
much confidence.
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"Maybe. And Maybe Zelig'll appear with a chopper to whisk us all to Aurora."
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They fell silent in the face of such uncertainties, until Heather said,
"Fire's going out, Dad."
"Best get ourselves into the van for the night. Leave the embers to smolder.
Won't do any harm, not with this snow starting again."
"What about tomorrow?"
He smiled at the girl, her face only a pale blur in the gloom of the forest.
"Tomorrow's another day, Heather," he said.
Chapter Twenty-Three
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