The companions awaken the next morning to find the place partially flooded, so they flee out the front door, draining off most of the water. He kills both of them, but some of the plumbing the bathroom is destroyed in the process, leaving the vast reservoirs to drain out into the redoubt. The night, however, Ryan gets up to shave and is attacked by the men, who think he and his friends are enemies after all. Ryan bluffs the pair into thinking they're fellow guardians, so the men allow them to share their food and use the facilities. The men are the last descendants of people who had found their way into the redoubt and appointed themselves its guardians.
They head up to the dorm level to find food and instead find a pair of inbred twins. The body dissolves into a pool of foul-smelling liquid.Īfter leaving the control room, they find stairs going up, as well as a map. Ryan awakens to find himself being throttled by Melmoth luckily for him, the jump killed the vampire, who was greatly weakened due to lack of sustenance, but it still requires the rest of the companions to get the vampire off him. Or they just do what they can to make life feel like eternity.Īt the end of the previous book, the companions had initiated a jump out of Louisiana, but one of the Family, Melmoth, got into the gateway before the jump was fully underway. They rip out your guts, drain you of your vital fluids and then turn into what they think you should look like to face eternity. Teachers are to life what morticians are to death. Hope died in the Deathlands, but the will to live goes on. But her Mother Sonja may be long gone, and the past becomes a trap as they press toward Harmony, a marauding gang hard on their trail. Here Ryan has an unsettling choice to make, and Krysty a debt to pay. It's old hunting grounds for Ryan and the Titian-haired Krysty Wroth - her home, and the place where they first came together. Ryan Cawdor and companions emerge from a gateway into the ravaged world of the Rockies.
As the twenty-second century emerges from the blight of nuclear damnation, humanity is slowly coming to terms with the bizarre new world of Deathlands, where each new generation holds the promise of renewal and redemption - in men like Ryan Cawdor and his son, Dean.
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