Chapter 28

Clara.

Every minute that passed felt like a lifetime. The trucks were silent for so long, every one of us lost in our own thoughts, trapped in our own horror at the thought of losing the compound. It had taken years to build it up to what it was, I just hoped that it was enough to hold until we got there, hoped that we would make it before any attack and we could alert everyone.

Day turned to night and day again, we switched drivers three times, stopping for only a few minutes and sleeping on and off in the cars and still we rode in silence.

There was no joking, no telling stories no random conversations or questions just short terse instructions issued ever so often. I wasn't sure if the silence was making it worse or not but every nerve in my body was highly strung, my heart rate accelerated my mind turning a hundred miles a minute and yet the only thought that seemed to take hold was that we had to make it.