Each day his sermons became a little bolder and more intricate. Borrowing from Revelation and from the War Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls, he had patched together a hybrid parable about a giant demon, one of the Sons of Darkness, begging him for forgiveness, and a queen of the dead, a woman with green eyes and hair like red gold whose name was Miranda, and her slaves, who were Nathan Lee and Izzy. It had been over a month since Ochs had kowtowed to him, but the encounter continued to whet his appetite for disciples. And then it would need someone like me to be where I am, doing what I'm doing, who could nod his head yes.īy the fire, Eesho was holding forth about the coming armageddon. Anyhow, I had this hunch someone like you might show up. She acted as if she'd been born here.īetter me than most, said the Captain. Her devotion to the city-her utter faith in it-baffled and frustrated him. Even if he could escape Los Alamos, Miranda would never agree to leave with him. He was more of a prisoner than the prisoners in Miranda's basement. Nathan Lee took it for granted that Paul Abbot had his every move under the tightest surveillance. It would mean betraying her father, to whom he'd promised to deliver Miranda, or trying to betray him. He could flee with Miranda, hole up, outwait the fanatics streaming toward Los Alamos, and then run loose through the world with what was left of their time. With the Captain's help, he'd plotted them on a map. There were hundreds of Anasazi cave dwellings in the Four Corners region. But when the time's right, I'm all for you. Now they could be used one final time, as his surrogate for breaking free. They and their sacrificed brothers had been used a thousand different ways by Los Alamos, from serving as lab subjects to titillating the city's mystical itch. Men followed behind, the earnest ones matching his pace, the slower ones yakking away. Big, loping strides carried him around the yard. The burnt sacrifices of birds and squirrels resumed, though the season was getting cold and they'd largely hunted the place out.Īt the moment, Ben was walking the wall circuit. Ben was the stalwart, first every morning, last at dusk, walking, feeding the fire, walking, walking, getting those muscles ready. Over the weeks, the prisoners had slowly begun to trickle up from their cells and brave the sun again. They were watching the yard over cameras. I'm thinking the boys should get turned loose, he announced to the Captain in the quiet of one afternoon. 5935 Likes, 70 Comments - Chris Ables (chrisablesart) on Instagram: Nubia, Wonder Womans sister, and fellow Amazon Warrior. He did the next best thing to making his own escape. ![]() You're going to let them go? he reiterated.Īnd so, for now, Nathan Lee resigned himself. Nathan Lee guessed that was one way to view the universe. The Captain took the job of programming the cell doors to automatically open an hour after the city emptied. ![]() In crossing America, he had heard stories of prisons and zoos filled with the carcasses of captives who had starved to death. ![]() Nathan Lee worried that if and when that day ever arrived, there would be so much chaos the guards might forget to open the cells. Their release, in short, would have to wait until E-Day, their fabled evacuation date.
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