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“We will,” she vowed, patting the pistol that was sitting on her lap.Pulling the garage door down manually, Amaros was lost to their sight.She sensed him rapidly moving away, then he vanished from her radar.
Chapter Twenty-Two
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AMAROS HATED LEAVINGthe females behind, but he didn’t have a choice.“At least they’re out of sight and they have weapons,” he said as he streaked along the sidewalk.Leaping over bodies and other obstacles, he didn’t get winded as he ran for a solid hour.
Things were just as bad as Grace had predicted when the knight reached the Bronx.Murder seemed to be a common pastime judging by all the corpses he’d spotted.A cacophony of screams came from everywhere.Most were caused by pain and anger.Some were from people who’d lost their sanity.
He could sense humans hunkered inside their homes in the apartment buildings he ran past.They were too afraid to venture outside, but hunger would force them to eventually.
Just as he’d figured, food stores were being guarded by groups of armed men and women.He moved too quickly for them to see him and challenge his presence.It took two hours of sprinting before he finally sensed Camriel.
He knew the moment his second sensed him.Joy came through their brotherly bond.The warrior left his hiding spot and began racing towards him.Amaros halted in a park and hid among some trees to stay out of sight.Humans were roaming in packs, armed with a variety of weapons.Two mobs approached each other, shouting insults and threats.Someone fired a gun, then mob rage took over.
“How quickly they’ve become savages,” Amaros said, not particularly amazed.Humans were always prone to turning on each other in his experience.
Pools of blood, body parts and intestines were scattered all over the park when the clash came to an end.Only a few survivors were left to limp away, figuratively licking their wounds.
Several dogs that had been abandoned slunk out from hiding.With their tails between their legs, they snatched up whatever flesh they could sink their teeth into and took off.
Glad the girls weren’t there to witness that spectacle, Amaros hoped they were okay.He couldn’t sense them from this far away.There only seemed to be humans around, not to mention the pets that were rapidly turning feral.
Camriel wasn’t as fast as his leader, but he was making good time.Amaros mentally calculated all the repairs that needed to be made to their base while he waited.The larger knight finally appeared an hour later.
“Right on time,” Amaros said as the blond warrior crashed through the trees.
“Brother!”Camriel exclaimed with a grin, then picked Amaros up and hugged him hard.“It’s good to see you again,” he said, putting him back on his feet.
“And you,” Amaros replied with a grin.“I see you had trouble finding clothing to fit.”
Camriel glanced down at the gray sweatpants that were too short and tight.His white t-shirt was just as bad.The sneakers he’d found were a size too small as well.“I scrounged what I could,” he said sheepishly.“I thought it would be better to stay out of sight.The inhabitants of that city I landed in have all gone mad.”
“We’ll talk on our way back to the females,” Amaros said, wanting to return to the girls as quickly as he could.
“What females?”Camriel asked in confusion.
