Ascension to the Lost Throne novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Camp Burns
The ridge above the camp was loose shale and wet pine, and Jude took it on his belly.
By midmorning he lay behind a fallen trunk eighty feet above the tanker, with the camp spread under him.
Two guards walked the line of trucks.
A third sat on the cattle trailer's step with a rifle across his knees.
The scarred man went in and out of the trailer door carrying a bucket of water.
Jude watched the scarred man's hands.
When the bucket went in full, and came out empty, the door closed behind it.
That meant Marina was drinking.
That meant she was alive and awake and could stand.
He slid down the slope in a long controlled fall.
The tanker had a valve on its rear coupling, a big iron wheel the size of a dinner plate.
Jude reached it from the blind side, behind the cab, and turned the wheel with both hands.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Ascension to the Lost Throne are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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