Throughout history, our response to the unknown -and therefore feared-had always been ‘kill it or control it’. Admittedly, the wars had been started by humans. When the monsters rose, and the wars started. The Wastes were the vast stretches of the United States-basically every state that didn’t have a coastline-that had been abandoned by humankind once the New Age began. Rusted cars piled haphazardly at roadsides from where the military had pushed them off the roads after they were abandoned. Buildings crumbling and fallen into ruin. No other humans for miles and miles and miles.

It was eerie.Įven though Nebraska had always been a somewhat empty and stretching state, there was a big difference between travelling through idyllic and peaceful cornfields-knowing a city full of humans was just a few hours away-and this. Since enlisting, I hadn’t actually spent much time out in the Wastes, despite the military compound I was stationed at being smack-dab in the centre of it.

At least no one could see my eyes shifting behind my goggles as I took in the vast, empty stretch of dusty land around us. My hands went cold and clammy inside my gloves, and I knew it was a stupid thing to do, but I tuned out the captain’s droning voice to distract me from the insidious fear creeping down my spine. Which meant I was standing here, about to go into the US military’s most important mission of the last twenty years, against the most dangerous, deadliest, terrifying creature imaginable, for one reason and one reason only.

I’d only been in the military for six months, for fuck’s sake. An option.” My stomach clenched with fear for the millionth time as I struggled to remain at attention. Twenty years of the blood and sweat of your fellow soldiers who have fallen at the hands of this creature.” Captain Hamish’s cold eyes scanned over the neat rows of us before him. This is the culmination of twenty years of intel, lost lives and millions of dollars.

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