Embers - Chapter Ten
After 'The Great Escape', as I called it, to the chagrin of both Rachel and Cash who thought the name unfitting and corny, we settled into a pattern of covering quite a few miles a day as we scavenged supplies, moving ever close to our destination over...
Embers - Chapter 9
The next few days, for lack of a batter term, sucked ass. Although the summer was waning into autumn, the roof was exposed, and the small rocks and black tar paper underneath soaked up heat, making it miserably hot during the day. After two days the...
Embers - Chapter 8
**Chapter VIII** When I woke early the next morning, for a second I looked up at the waning stars and inky black sky and thought I was at the cabin. That everything that had happened was a dream, that I couldn't possibly be here, stuck on the roof of...
Embers - Chapter 7
The next morning I awoke happier than normal, and if Rachel heard anything from the night before, she kept it to herself. We dragged out what little food we hadn't secured inside the cabin and made a farewell feast for breakfast. Everybody seemed in a...
Embers - Chapter 6
**Chapter VI** We must have passed the test with Rachel, because the next few days, although busy, were considerably more pleasant. We continued to eat our communal meals out of her stockpile of food, she now helped assist in the daily chores instead...
Embers - Chapter 5
**Chapter V** The next morning I awoke earlier than normal, at that time of day when the nocturnal creatures have gone to bed, but the birds haven't quite woken up. I quietly exited the tent and sat on a weathered tree stump that overlooked the...
Embers - Chapter 4
**Chapter IV** The next couple weeks went by in a haze of exhaustion and emotion. There was a constant tension between King, I and Rachel, which wasn't helped by the fact that she seemed to _always_ be watching us, or at least have seen what we were...
Embers - Chapter 2
**Chapter II** Slowly we walked back down the hillside as the burnt oranges and reds tinging the clouds slowly faded into darker blues and purples. Shadows crept further down the distant mountain sides, reclaiming them for the night. The softness...
Embers - Chapter 3
**Chapter III** Although he said he wasn't going to kill us, I still sat on edge, shaking from the adrenaline of the almost-execution that had just occurred. King sat next to me in some chairs up against the wall across from the stranger's bed, and I...
Ember - Chapter One
**Chapter I** Trudging through the hot pine forest was becoming tiresome after three days. Back in the last town I had frankly been too tired to argue with King about the "local" map he picked up from the piles of refuse outside the burned out gas...
Embers - Prologue
PROLOGUE Light streamed through the windows onto the worn wood of the floor, motes of dust floating lazily in the morning glow. Birds chirped in the pine trees right outside the door, the more brash ones making their way onto the weathered railings to...