He Died Saving Me on Day 87, So Now I Save Him novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Farm Burns
Wyatt had seen the smoke too.
He met us at the Cliff Avenue gate with the Peterbilt's door already open and the engine roaring, and nobody stopped us.
Whatever Osterman's deputies had been told, they were not told to keep a cattle truck from leaving.
Tor rode in the sleeper with his hand pressed to his chest.
I sat on the jump seat, and Wyatt drove.
He drove like a man cutting a rope.
He didn't speak. The gauges on the dash trembled.
Eighteen miles of empty county road went by under a black sky that was getting thicker.
We heard it before we saw it.
It was a long hollow roar, like wind in a chimney, with a crackle through it.
The county road crested a rise, and the whole valley below was orange.
The barn was gone.
It stood in the dark as a frame of flame.
The roof had already fallen in, and sparks went up into the cold air.
The Quonset shed had begun to burn. The farmhouse windows were lit from inside.
The tower leaned against the sky, cut at the base, its guy wires slack.
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