The Earth After Rebirth

Wilfred wasn't one to disobey an order but this one made him feel conflicted. He carefully listened for gun shots up the mountain but none came.

"Maybe I should trust him..." He sprung into action, taking Nikolai on one shoulder and dragging the dead body with another hand.

He entered the train and waited for exactly five minutes, when there was no sign of them through the trees, Wilfred hesitantly started the train. He felt bitter and strange, it felt wrong leaving his master behind.

But as with Nikolai's almost incomprehensible words, this was an order. An order he understood what it would achieve should the people at the top be the government good that were on Blakeson's pocket.

"Fuck..." He let out softly as the train flew away from the mountain. Wilfred was still looking back but it didn't take long before the mountain was completely out of sight.

At a blink of an eye they could already see the buildings in the upper district. He didn't stop the train even as they entered the midst of the upper district. Sekani had told him the plan before they went to that mine.

In case anything happened to either of them, he couldn't risk disappearing with the safe place he had bought after Kiro told him about the mine and gave him the information and permission to act alone.

The land was in the middle district, all this time he was waiting for the apartments to be finished building. There was also a medical centre within the premises. He named the place Waynworth Centre, originally he wanted nothing about them coming back to his family.

But he wracked his brains for weeks and it was legally needed to be named so he went with whatever was in front of him.

That's where Wilfred was headed, he'd inspected the apartments before they came here and they in very good condition. They already had several doctors waiting for their patients there.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

The people they'd saved still had dead eyes in the train, they didn't talk, they didn't make any kind of sound, they just sat there. To Wilfred, all this wasn't worth losing Sekani over.

He didn't even want to think of what Freya or Kiro will do to him when he breaks the news to them about what happened here. Wilfred only hoped that they wouldn't be killed because that would be a lot worse.

His heart sank to the pits of his stomach when he realised that Sekani had left the estate without telling Freya what they would be doing or where they will be going. Now it would fall all on him to explain from the very start.

He was a man with experience, a man who didn't even flinch at the sight of dead bodies but at that moment his stomach was tied into knots. Wives and children were a different breed.

"It'll be alright." Grey said almost letting his hand touch his back to pat him but he stopped himself. Not sure how Wilfred would react to that.

"Dammit. I've failed him. I've failed him, I never fail." His leg unconsciously stomped on the train floor, this unintentionally made the zombie people have a reaction to his stomping.

They didn't like it.

Grey this time packed up the courage and patted the man on the leg that was about to cause havoc. At that he was made aware of his surroundings.

"Sorry." He muttered in a sour mood. "Is Mister Silva and Mister Waynworth really worth sacrificing the lot of them?" He pointed around to the dead looking people. "They're not even aware right now of what could be lost!"

"Once rehabilitated, they will understand what was lost if there'll be anything lost that is. I doubt thy would just have the guts to kill a Silva, while he's with Jesús your master is safe from anything extreme." Grey tried to console him.

If he was honest with himself, he didn't know either what the government officials were capable of, especially ones that were on a certain individual's payroll.

Gilbert Blakeson was not a good person. It wasn't far from him to pin all of this on Jesús and Waynworth, while he gets rid of any evidence that linked him to the mine. He was cunning like that.

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"You don't know that, we don't even know that these people will ever return to a sort of normalcy. Dammit, I should've researched more. I should've been the one to be used as a decoy so you lot escaped."

"What we came here to do, I refuse we did all that in vain. He just need a little bit of faith right now." Grey shook his head as he said, he didn't want anything negative tainting his mind, he didn't want to think that whatever they did here was in vain.

There was absolutely no way he killed all those people for nothing. He was willing to work tooth and nail to ensure that they integrate well into society once again. Especially the children, out of the hundreds of numbers, about fifty were children under age of thirteen. About four hundred were young adults, ranging from seventeen to twenty-seven.

Everyone else was either old or even more old. The children and the young adults, absolutely had to be worked on until they showed a little bit of light in their eyes, at least that's what he thought.

"What are you old geezers talking about?" Nikolai said propping himself up against the train.

It only took a split second for the warmth and happiness to dissipate. It dawned on him that, Sekani was lost out there.

"You left him?" He asked in an accusatory tone.

"You're the one who came back with the order, kid." Wilfred looked at him perplexed.

"Huh? I told you, I begged you to go back for them." He tried to think back but he couldn't, the only thing Nikolai remembered was him running through the forest, carrying a dead body on his shoulders.

Grey shook his head, "you told him Sekani gave the order that we should leave with these people. You obviously said that in a very few words but we got the gist of it."

He remembered that much, he was given an order but he swore to disobey it. In his state he did say as he was told but in his head, after he'd passed out, he told Wilfred the opposite.