The Camouflaged Cross: Tales Of Christian Preppers In The End Times (Just Run Book 1) by Cal Wilson Read Free Book Online

“They’ve killed Kirk,” she cried. “It’s still sinking in. I hate this.”
     
    “I know. I can’t believe it.” Peter breathed heavily to keep from crying. “Stubborn guy that he was. He should have come up here.” The two stopped hugging. Kathy sat on the only chair in the tent while Peter sat on the floor.
     
    “Oh, sorry,” Kathy looked at Peter sitting on the ground. “Here, take my seat. Or we could open up the cot.”
     
    “No that’s OK. I’m fine.”
     
    “What do you think happened to Jackie?”
     
    “I heard she took the Mark.”
     
    “Well that was a huge mistake. What else could she have done wrong?”
     
    “We don’t know anything else, and frankly I’m not eager to ask any more details. David and Sean looked pretty shaken up. In shock, really. I saw a lot of that in the Marines.”
     
    “I still can’t believe it. He’s gone.”
     
    Peter folded his arms, looking serious. “Hey Kathy, I was thinking …”
     
    “What?”
     
    “You know the back trail I go, to drop off the entrails.”
     
    “What do you mean? Go to the roadblock?”
     
    “I was thinking of getting Kirk’s body so that we could bring it back here and bury it.”
     
    “Ugh. You’re a good friend of his.”
     
    “I’ve been around dead bodies before. More times than I care to think about.”
     
    “I guess Jackie’s not burying the body?” Kathy sounded angry at Jackie.
     
    “No. Apparently Jackie just took off. She just left his body there. I distinctly heard that.”
     
    “Pretty ironic, don’t you think?” Kathy said. “Bringing up Kirk’s body and burying it on a piece of property he didn’t want to go to.”
     
    “That’s true. Well, he never saw all this coming. Let’s face it, if you told me a few months ago what we are going through right now I would say you are crazy. No one saw it coming.”
     
    “Yes, that’s true. It was all pretty fast. What did Jesus say in Matthew 24? ‘Just run.’ Well, here we are. We ran.”
     
    “And here we are.” Peter stood up, started to leave the tent. “I think I will go and get his body, before the birds start feasting on him. If you can come along, that would be great. To watch my back, or if I need help with something. I would rather not go down there alone. But I can understand if you don’t want to come.”
     
    Kathy looked at Peter, thinking it over. “Kind of like in the Old Testament, when they went and got King Saul’s body.”
     
    “Yeah, that sounds about right. In fact, that’s exactly what it is.”
     
    Kathy looked resolved, but said nothing.
     
    “Just think it over, Kathy.” Peter walked out.
     
    “Alright,” Kathy said. “I’m in. But you handle the body.”
     
    “OK.”
     
    “In fact I really don’t even want to see it at all. And I want to stay back from the roadblock. I hear that it smells pretty bad there. Just disgusting.”
     
    “It’s supposed to. But that’s OK. I can handle the body.”
     
    “When are you going?”
     
    “Give me a few minutes. Not very long.” Peter walked out of the tent.
     
     
     
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CHAPTER 6
     
     
     
    “Alright, who is at the observation post right now?” Peter asked Jesse. Peter had with him a large heavy-duty, dark green duffle bag and a game cart that enabled hunters to bring home deer that had been killed. Except this time the cart would be used to bring Kirk’s body back.
     
    “I think right now Justin and Tracy are over there. The Happy Twins.” Justin and Tracy, twin brother and sister, had earned a reputation in the church of always being happy and telling jokes, even during stressful times. “Not that you guys are going that way, right?” Jesse asked Peter and Kathy.
     
    “No, we’re going the back way.” Peter said. “The hiking trail. And don’t worry, we will make sure to leave it all covered up. I was just curious who was up at the observation post.”
     
    “Oh, OK.”
     
    “By the way,” Kathy said, “is