Zombielandia by Lee Wade Read Free Book Online

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    Chapter Twenty Five
    Finally the morning came. It had been a rough night, but we’d managed a little bit of sleep. I’d dreamt of home back in Togston, our small terrace house, the children had been playing on their trampoline in the garden. I’d been tending to my leeks and other vegetables as I did whenever I had time off from work, Babs had been seeing to things in our home and feeding our ginger cat, Jaffa. She shouted over to tell us that her mother was coming over to see us, which she often did several times a day. This was the beauty of living in a small countryside village and all the family being so close together. I shouted over to Luke and Emily to tell them that Grandma was coming over with sweets for them and they ran to the gate, excitedly waiting for her to arrive. I think it must have been the fright I got when the children started screaming that woke me, Grandma’s a rotter Emily was screaming, and she’s eating Luke! That’s when I woke, sweating, shit I thought, talk about scary mother in laws!
    The morning went by as usual; everyone was a little bit nervous and excited at the same time. The Somerset was due to dock at Faslane that evening and no one on board knew what to expect.
    I heard that they were planning on sending out some of the smaller vessels to go ahead and scout out the area first before taking the Somerset into port. I just hoped that the Saltwind and Hope weren’t one of these vessels. At least with all the activity going on and boats coming and going, it was going to be less likely that our two boats would be missed.
    Keith was at lunch with us, which was nice as it may have been the last time we saw him, at least for a while anyway. He had managed to find out that the Saltwind had been out on a scouting mission that morning, but was back and tied up now, which was great news. The Hope was out now, scouting the shoreline next to the Somerset, but was never too far away. It all sounded promising, maybe our plan would work out, the excitement and anticipation was really starting to build now.
    We all went back to our duties after saying our last good byes to Keith and wishing him good luck in the search for his family. I hoped that he found them at Faslane, or at least found out where the ship was that they were on. Paul and David had already managed to get everyone’s few possessions on board the Hope. We knew that we had little to no supplies as the only food we had access to was at meal times and Babs was very heavily supervised in the kitchens. So we knew that we were going to have to stop somewhere for supplies fairly early into our journey.
    I spent the afternoon studying maps of the areas we were planning on travelling through. I was looking for possible places to pick up supplies and places we could moor safely. It was at times like this that you realised how much you missed computers and particularly Google!
    The Forth and Clyde canal itself was only thirty five miles long, linking the Clyde on the West coast of Scotland with the Forth on the East coast. There was however thirty nine locks that we’d have to navigate along the way as well as several low bridges in Clydebank that would need to be raised. I just hoped they could be raised manually, as I doubted there would be any power to them. We would also have to travel through a lot of built up areas in the earlier stages of our journey, but hey, we would deal with that later, our priority was getting off this dam ship and getting our group back together.
    Chapter Twenty Six
    Five O’clock finally came, I met Babs and the children back at our quarters, if everything had gone as planned, David and the Saltwind would be well on its way to the rendezvous point with the rest of our guys.
    Sophie showed up a few minutes later with the two girls, they all embraced Babs and there were a few tears, but I had to part them, they would have plenty of time later for all that, we had to get moving straight away.
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