The Risen: Courage (32 page)

Authors: Marie F Crow

BOOK: The Risen: Courage

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Selma sits in the blue mini-van left behind by those who once lived in the forsaken school. Her shoulder throbs, her arm feels as if it is blistering from an invisible fire, but it’s her head that is sending her into tears of agony.

Pressure thrusts against the walls of her skull. It ruins her vision as a fever-like fire blazes inside her body. A part of her knows what is happening. She has seen it enough times in the past. She has caused it to happen to every small neighborhood in their path as she and Travis played out their personal vengeance for what had happened to them. She, of all the people who are still cursed to walk the earth, should know what is happening. It just doesn’t make sense.

She never injected herself with the shots her and Travis had convinced the remaining believers to take. She sat, watching them self-administer the doses marveling at how Travis could so easily twist people to his plans. Plans that had involved their mathematical-like destruction of every pocket of life they discovered, until now.

Selma stares at the gaping, torn flesh of her arm where one of the believers had bitten her when he awoke. She stares at it as the first convulsions rattle her skeleton with the force of the contractions.

It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense!
Are her last thoughts as her mind is destroyed by the very evil she had used to destroy so many others.