Crashlanded: Chapter 4

Raid

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Randy snapped awake screaming. Sweat poured from him. He could feel the cold hands of the frozen man around his neck. He reached up and found nothing. Cass and Phoebe both groaned in the darkness but did not wake. Randy lay down breathing heavily. Why’d I have to find a cryopod, he thought. He considered going back and shooting the frozen man through the head though he suspected the glass was bulletproof. Maybe I could burn it down? Randy rolled over. And the whole forest with it, idiot. He closed his eyes to the darkness.

Morning came early for Randy and Phoebe as Cassandra hurried about cleaning the one room building they’d made out of the ruins. Cass knocked the box of bullets onto the floor, scattering the precious ammo everywhere.

‘Could you do something else?’ Randy asked pulling the cover up to his chin.

‘No,’ Cass said gathering…