Reporting their progress each passageway discovered proved fruitful. Along with Prof. Tenorio’s convenient ability for spatial imagination, each corner with an obstacle becomes easy to tread on with his guidance. Cluing him on how the room looked, like a walkie-talkie guess game, figuring out the doors was a feat they thought would take Team A2 ages to traverse. In cases where they find the entryway diminutive, the option to travel over the outside is always an option.
Their escape became a mouse throwing off scent from the cat. The new rout
Before they could retaliate with their bullets, the creature lurked over the kids, grabbing a few in its clutches. The children at the back successfully scurried in the confines of a nearby building to hide for safety. The ones near the alcove were unlucky to be unable to run away. Either way, their intent to help went down the drain. The Primer took a few more kids to its grasp, voices of fear echoing between the building.Scoffing at the distressed echoed voices, the Primer leaped back to climb into a part of a condominium, leaving a fading echo
The whirring sound from the motor of the coffin filled the vehicle. A burst of wind escaped the tiny vents under the container, smelling a kind of antiseptic. The mask he wore didn’t hide the feeling of light fumes staved off by the winds outside.The armored truck’s interior is painted all black with visible scratches showing all sorts of stories it could tell through its experience. Both sides sport seats and pull-out ones on the door at the very back. On the pull-outs sat two escorts donning their dark visors and stiff mask sitting
“Ugh, I just convinced the old coon here to let me back in G-city so we can get more funds to deploy men and better materials for all the DPW projects. Now we have a new DPW detected? Is god playing a joke on us?”On the side of Patraika and Prof. Tenorio, their background was rumbling metals and rocky shuffling.&ldq
Hi, Nate here!Hi, Readers! Thanks for following through my chapters and update. I'm here to say that I will be on a long hiatus this January for personal and health reasons. The start of the year 2022 is rocky for preparations to continuing SBOF. There are still a few more chapters to go through before the end of this book, and it's not as happy a journey.I'll be honest, I'm struggling writing a bit. I'm lining up a new story to write for this year, but will debut around the third quarter. Unlike SBOF where I write real time, or almost.Anyway, I will be resuming the story on February. Sorry for everything, and I hope I could properly continue the chapters.*crossfingers*@AcrimonyNate
Chapter 12Another night passes for the house of Darmstadt. With the addition of four mouths to feed and the lucky location where almost no danger comes, no dark-creature lurks, they’ve come to spend the coming hours on edge but feeling reasonably safe. Piling on this feeling of safety is the looming quest to restock their supply of food. Since they aren’t leaving any time soon, Lena figured a few of them could look around each house and see if they’ve got stocks to help them.None of Lena, Berns, Perri, and Horaz know what happened to the rest of the residents in the surrounding houses. Honestly, they couldn’t care much. Berns only knows what happened to her family. Tragedy filled her mind enough to forget the rest of the world, why she had no time to think of others beyond the bounds of the house.Lena prioritized her communication with her children using her smartphone with barely any signal that she lost in
Perri knew some of the people they passed by. One house belonged to the office mate of her father. The balcony of their terrace out on their backyard looked broken with furniture strewn. She wasn’t sure what happened there, but the destruction didn’t bode well. Not that they all had the time to check on every house.She did stop when she saw children outside of their house, a touch of relief to see kids safe despite the surrounding abundance of chaos. Absent from violence in the eyes of just curious young ones felt like a sudden burden if she isn’t thinking much on the bearing of the situation.An urge to help them kicks in without hesitation. The children are the only reason she yields to provide aid, but the parent’s caution keeps them from giving it. Shooing them at sight, discreetly, or blatantly shouts without regard whether they are seen or not from the noise to alert the creature. The kids or parents who knew Perri or Horaz only nodded in
One of them continued to inspect the cabinets, finding appropriate supplies for adults unopen. On another cabinet is the stock for kids, cereal boxes, baby formula’s, and diaper’s that wouldn’t expire after two years.A trove of other items, non-consumable, included could be have been added to their storage, but they only have enough space for specific items. Hurrying back to Anton and Perri, they found that the two were busy hiding behind a car not far. That was already there when they arrived.They were watching someone far down the road. The two don’t show alarm or a sense of danger, looking busy chatting with each other. Maybe the two were trying to figure out what to do.Horaz cautiously carried the bag of canned goods he had at his back and looked in the direction they were watching. Behind him was Tacio carrying a box from the kitchen, now filled with baby necessities. He didn’t get to see the other two of their group fussing
Aurea had a time standing and pulling others to stay optimistic, especially after meeting with Bedlyne (Betts) and Bertrand (Trust). The couple that she promised to meet was staying in one of the rooms on the first floor, inside a doctor’s office. She was glad they were safe, finding that Trust’s right eye was completely covered by bandages, knowing it was an injury from the first day.Her heart ached when she listened to how Trust lost his eye from surviving out of his office and was thankful that he and Betts were fortunate enough to meet and help each other. Even the story on their rooftop safety was like a miracle, though the question most Aurea inquired was how damaged the entire hospital was for each floor.The two stated that every floor is stable enough to hold itself, except for small sections with severe damage. They also noted the top floors are out of access, and the only time they successfully got out from there was to climb down with a rope th