Alone in the Ashes

Серия: The Ashes, книга 5

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A crowd of ragged men and women had gathered around the pickup. They were armed with clubs, axes, knives, and spears.

“The welcoming committee,” Ben Raines said softly.

“What do you want here?” a woman shouted at Ben and Judy.

“We don’t mean you any harm,” said Ben calmly, hoping for the best. “We’re just traveling through.”

“Why did you stop?” a man called. He held an axe in his hands.

“People on the roofs with bows and arrows,” Judy whispered.

“I see them. If shooting starts, you take the south side of the street, I’ll take the north.”

“All right.”

“We don’t want any trouble,” Ben called out. But he was going to get trouble-and plenty of it!

"All I want of you is a little servility, and that of the commonest goddamnest kind."

Anonymous

"Them’s my sentiments."

Thackeray

Prologue

Ben knew he should feel some sort of regret; some feeling of sadness or sorrow at leaving his people-and they were his people-behind.