The Age Of The Dead

Chapter 14: Welcome

Mike walks to a reinforced steel door and pulls a key out of his pocket.

"No garage?" Iñaki asks as he tries to cover Sofia from the rain.

"Now you'll see," he replies.

Then he sees it. Behind the door stands a landscape of cars, scrap, furniture, and rubble that merge into a kind of barricade. On his left, a gray apartment block forms one of the "legs" of the urbanization "U", on his right the other one and in front of him is the building that forms the base.

The path leading to the pool is clear in a straight line. It continues until it comes to the door of the central block. On the sides, the passage is blocked by the "barricade". The only way in is through the pool.

While Iñaki soaks up in the rain, still shaking from the cold that reaches his bones, Mike looks at him with a semi-smile.

"Time for a swim."

The raindrops hit the barricade around the pool composing a macabre symphony. Sofia's body is a cold rock in Iñaki's arms. Roco does not detach from his heels.

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