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Chapter 13
My suit jacket is singed and torn to hell now as I realize when I slide behind the wheel again.
The girl pulls the passenger door closed softly.
“You’re going to have to slam it. It won’t close that way.”
“I don’t want to make noise.”
I look around, through the smoke drifting on the breeze. I see them in the spaces between the drifts. “You won’t attract them. At least not yet.”
“How do you know?” Juniper asks.
“Because they’re over there,” I jerk my head to the newly ignited building on fire with people scattering like ants.
She leans over my shoulder and looks up the concrete ravine and gasps then slams the door and says, “Can you hurry? Get us out of here.”
“Already on it, kid,” I say as I’m peeling out of the concrete drainage system and flooring it through the smoke while those things are otherwise occupied. “Keep a lookout,” I tell the girl without need because she’s half-turned around on one knee sticking her head out the center window and looking above to make sure the coast is clear to the heavens. The thought occurs to me that she’s likely going to be paranoid for the rest of her life after this is all over. Let’s hope there’s a time when we get to look back and say, “Where were you when the jellies hit?”
But for now, I rely on the child in the seat beside me to keep our sentry as I stare ahead, dodge random objects in the field, aim for an unseen road, and scan the sky in front of us at the same time. We’re kicking up mud chunks and my bare foot slides off the rough pedal once, causing the girl to tilt backward. I swing my arm out. “Watch it, kid!” I yell but catch myself being more afraid she’s about to clock her head on the dashboard. Let’s just say, that would have been unfortunate and messy.
“Keep going,” she yells as if I’m the slacker.
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