The Orc Outcast’s Conquest (ORC MATES OF FAEDA #1) by Aurora Winters EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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MIRANDA
Miranda chewed her parched tongue, willing saliva to form, and only
made her mouth taste like gritty sand. Her fingers trembled and her
feet slid against the dry ground, toes skidding in shoes a size too big for her.
The sound echoed off the hillside, which was barren except for the
haunting remains of crisp black trees. Their needles and branches were
burned away, leaving nothing but jutting, pointed trunks that pierced
threateningly at the cloudless sky. They surrounded her completely,
looming ahead, flanking the road she was walking on until they swallowed
it up in the distance.
Just days ago, this was a beautiful forest, with green pine trees and soft
patches of moss and birds flying overhead. She loved driving this road to
the coast, rolling down her windows to breathe in the scent of warm wood
and ocean salt.
It was all gone. Everything was gone.
She squeezed her eyes shut, agony rippling through her chest. She took
deep, burning breaths and turned the rising pain into determination. She
wiped her dry hands on the workout shorts she’d stolen, a nervous tick, and
dug the string straps of her bag into her almost bare shoulder. The sun beat
down on her, relentless. Her mind was about as melted as the mile marker
sign she was staring down, all warped and confused.
This was the third sign she’d passed this morning. They were becoming
more frequent. The first day, when she’d started walking out of the rubble
that had once been her hometown, she’d only passed five. She’d been so
numb then. So lost and unfocused. She’d seen the milepost marker all lit up
in the growing dim of sunset, “Pacific Ocean, 42 miles ahead,” and she’d
followed it blindly because someone must have gotten them working right?
A survivor must have left them for others to find.
But she’d seen not a soul since. At least not a human soul.
Now, three days later she’d counted a total of twenty-seven during her
trek across the blistering, barren landscape. A path she followed on pure
instinct alone. Driven by nothing more than her own gut screaming that the
ocean was the answer.
It is. Keep going.
Miranda squeezed her eyes shut and took a long deep breath into her
burning lungs. She had to get out of here. She had to keep following the
signs even if they didn’t make any sense. Everything had been burnt to a
crisp and yet these electronic milepost markers still worked. How was that
possible? There was something strange about it. Something inconceivable
that pricked the corners of her ragged senses.
Just keep going
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