Underdog, Book 2
The Wastes
by Alexey Osadchuk
Release - December 23, 2019
Pre-order on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XGL6WCW
Chapter
1
“WE
GOTTA GET out
of here,” I said after staring for a while at the broken shield. “It isn’t
safe.”
Jay just nodded in
silence. All this time she had been trying to keep no more than one step away
from me, as if she was afraid I would just magically evaporate into thin air.
Taking a final look at
the blaze, I breathed another heavy sigh. Black embers, smoking partially-collapsed
hearths, ash mixed with mud... ugh, this was not at all how I imagined my
return to the surface.
Gorgie ran back over
to us, having been snooping around nearby.
“Old tracks. Female. Younglings,” he told me shortly.
“Curious...”
“Did he find
something?” she asked with hope in her voice.
“Looks like it,” I
answered. “Say, you know what’s over that way?”
Jay looked where I
pointed.
“The Yellow Bog.”
“So it’s a swamp...”
“A gods-forsaken
place,” Jay said with a shiver.
“Well, Gorgie says the
women and children went that way a few days ago,” I told her quizzically.