I Overpacked for the Apocalypse, So My Daughter Invited the Street novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: Day Five

On the fifth day I woke before six, with the first-aid kit already under my arm.

It was Wednesday, and in the other life it was the day the red reached her wrist.

I had not told Lucy the date.

She knew it anyway, because she had watched me carry a kit into the bathroom.

I stayed twenty feet behind her.

She went out to the pump shed with a bucket.

I stood behind a pine and pretended to read the label on a can of beans.

She came out, saw me, looked at the can, and went back in.

At the woodpile I came closer.

She was splitting kindling with a hatchet, her grip careful around the bandage.

I stood very close and said nothing at all, which in my case is a form of shouting.

"Dad," said Lucy.

"Yes," I said.

"Is that a tourniquet?"

"It's a precaution," I said.

"It's on your belt loop."

"It's a small tourniquet," I said.

Elspeth sat on a stump nearby with a thermos, watching us the way she watches a pot.

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