Lahat ng Kabanata ng No Escape!: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 10

Lilly's POVI woke up to rain that wasn't really rain, it came down in slow streaks that hissed when they hit the ground, leaving faint scorch marks wherever they touched. I held out my hand once, just to see and it burned like acid not enough to blister, but enough to make me hiss and pull back. The sky looked sick again, always moving and changing like it couldn't decide what color it wanted to be.I'd spent the night on the roof of the apartment building, barricaded in by a rusted door and a couple of metal pipes. The Hollowed had wandered below for hours, circling the street like sharks, they didn't sleep, didn't tire and didn't stop. When dawn or whatever passed for dawn had came, they just drifted away, following the pull of something I couldn't see.I hadn't slept much either every sound made me jump and every creak felt like a heartbeat that wasn't mine. Now, with my backpack slung over one shoulder and the knife tucked into my belt, I stared at the city stretched beneath me a

Lilly's POV Dawn had arrived faster than I expected. We listened and noted that it was quiet and the perfect time to move. Scarlet and John went out first, glanced around, then gave us the okay to join them. "What is the safe zone?" I questioned as we got into our formation, now with me in front of Scarlet. "It is a compound that is letting in survivors we heard about from the camp we were previously in." Mary was the one to answer me quietly as she followed behind John. John glanced back at me and then returned to watching around us for any danger. I knew he wasn't as trusting as Mary or Scarlet but I felt like I haven't really given him a reason to not trust me and was taking a little offense in the way he was always watching me, but then again in these times I guess you really can't trust anyone.After what seemed like four or five miles I noticed a large metal gate in the distance. The gate stood around twelve feet high made of welded steel plates and rusted fencing. Old highw

Lilly’s POVThe sound of the Hollowed faded until there was only the soft sound of dripping water. The tunnel walls trembled once with the last of the chaos outside, then settled. We were sealed in by a iron door standing in silence in the dim glow of the lantern lights, our breathing still uneven. Lilac whimpered quietly against Mary's shoulder, her small fingers clenching the edge of Mary's jacket tightly. "It's safe for now," Liam finally said, his voice low but with a firmness to it. I looked around at everyone as no one argued with Liam's statement, everyone was still, and that stillness was almost painful. Scarlet broke the silence first, "You said this tunnel led to the river, correct?"Liam nodded, "The tunnel runs under the old city sewage line. We stocked stocked it last month with food, water, medical supplies and even blankets. We planned this for if the compound ever fell and this would have to be our back up plan."I scanned the space as he spoke and noticed metal cr

Kael's POVThe world has always ended in fire, once by the divine will and now by silence. I walked through what remained of a city once loved by man, it's towers were black skeletons and it's streets a graveyard of dust and bone. The air tasted of rust and regret, every echo was a ghost that refused to fade. Each step I took left a faint trail of light across the cracked ground like dying embers, gone before the ground can burn. I had learned long ago to hide my fire, to move in the shadows away from anyone looking. I was not meant to walk among the mortals again, but the veil had shattered and the balance I had sworn to uphold had fallen with it. And then she had awakened, the tether, known as Lilly.I had felt her breath long before I ever saw her, a ripple across the dying world. A pulse that tore through every plane at once. It had been centuries since anything has made me feel so alive. At first I thought it was a trick of the gods, one more cruelty to remind me of what I had

Lilly’s POV We walked for hours, the cracked highway stretched endlessly ahead, each mile marker was covered in dust with splatters of blood. The wind was blowing hard enough to push us back towards the compound we've left behind. Chicago was a shrinking shadow behind us with it's skyscrapers leaning instead of standing tall. The road south twisted between forests that were empty of leaves from the trees that were charred and split open. John led the way with his rifle raised with Scarlet walking beside him scanning every ditch and broke down car. Liam was at the rear, silent and tense, his eyes always drifting towards me as though he expected me to burst into flames and maybe he wasn't wrong. Ever since the attack at the compound when I released the light I can feel something pulsing under my skin like a second heart beating. It didn't hurt exactly just uncomfortable like it was waiting to be set free. The air shifted around us. "Hold up," Liam muttered, his hand going up in a