Back Shadow Sun Survival: Shadow Sun Book One
Chapters (21)
  1. Shadow Sun
  2. Chapter One
  3. Chapter Two
  4. Chapter Three
  5. Chapter Four
  6. Chapter Five
  7. Chapter Six
  8. Chapter Seven
  9. Chapter Eight
  10. Chapter Nine
  11. Chapter Ten
  12. Chapter Eleven
  13. Chapter Twelve
  14. Chapter Thirteen
  15. Chapter Fourteen
  16. Chapter Fifteen
  17. Chapter Sixteen
  18. Chapter Seventeen
  19. Chapter Eighteen
  20. Chapter Nineteen
  21. Acknowledgements

He located the meter out back, along with six others for the strip of tenants.  After shutting off the water for all of them, he rejoined Amanda.   She’d found a rolling cart and was loading up boxes of bandages. There was already a large box of medications, mostly samples, on the cart.   She pointed to an adjustable exam bed in one of the rooms.  “Do you think you can move that?”

Allistor walked over and tested it.  He grabbed hold and tried tilting it on its side.  When it didn’t budge, he crouched down and looked at the base.   There were brackets holding it secure to the floor.  They were simple bolts.  Not having any tools with him, he tried grabbing hold and twisting the bolt head.  He squeezed as hard as he could with his thumb and forefinger, then twisted.  No joy.

“I’ll have to come back with tools and unbolt it.  I’ll bring one of the guys with me.  It looks heavy, but two of us should be able to lift it.”

Amanda nodded then pointed to a stainless steel cabinet with glass doors.  “How about that?”

Allistor took hold of either side of the cabinet and pulled.  It came away from the wall without issue.  He carefully hefted it, walking backward then sideways out the door.  He set it down outside.  Looking at the truck and the trailer, he shook his head.  “If we just set this up there, all the glass will be broken by the time we get back.”

Going back inside, he found two sofas in the waiting area.  He was tempted to take them back but settled for pulling all the cushions off them.  He lined the bed of the pickup with the cushions, then lifted the cabinet up and set it down atop them.

After some poking around, he found several rolls of duct tape in the shop next door.  He used the tape to secure the cabinet to keep it from sliding back and forth.  Amanda filled in the open spaces in the bed with small boxes of medical supplies, piles of robes and scrubs, anything relatively soft.

Once she’d pulled everything she wanted, other than the bed, from the doc’s office, they jumped back in the truck and headed out of town.  It was slow going, having to drive around, and sometimes over, the debris.  Once they cleared town though, the roads became much clearer.  They had to stop once for Allistor to clear a few fallen trees from the road.  There was clear evidence the titan had passed that way – a path of devastated trees and brush stretched away on either side of the road.

The hospital was deserted.  Abandoned vehicles were scattered about the parking lot.  Some of them with broken windows and blood spatter.  Several of the ground floor windows were shattered, including the automated doors that led to the ER.  Clearly, something had attacked this place.  Several somethings.