Friday 5 August 2016

Indigo Shadow: Page Thirty-Seven

 Chapter Three
Wendy's Secret

“Are you girl’s planning to go out again today?” Sienna’s father asked the next morning after they’d had breakfast.

“We’d like to,” Sienna said. “But in the circumstances we’ll understand if you want us to stay here. It’s obviously not safe out there.”

“My gut says to no,” her mother said. “But I doubt you’d be any safer here if those monsters decide you’re a target. Not if they’re banging down doors to get to people.”

“But you should know that killing you saw yesterday wasn’t the only one,” her father said. “People are very tense. If you are going out try not to give them reason to be tenser.”

“And ring us at least once an hour so we know you’re safe,” her mother added.

“I can do that, Mum,” Sienna agreed.

***

This time they got through the streets to the ruined factory that Wendy still insisted on calling her secret base but Sienna could see what her mother meant by tense. There were people standing around in almost every street glaring balefully at any strangers who dared to pass through though thankfully none of them attacked the two girls. Sienna got the definite impression that their targets were the killers should they dare to target any houses in their streets. It seemed their warnings and attempts to terrorize people had only stirred up stubborn resistance rather than compliance.

“I don’t envy those guys if they try that again,” Wendy muttered as they climbed through a hole in the chain link fence around the factory. “Even with guns they’ll come out on the losing end of a mob.” She gave a half smile. “But boy would they deserve it.”

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