Chapter 473: Changing Locations
While Elmo had supported the idea of going to the edge of town to set up camp before they all settled down for the night, he wasn’t really happy about having to walk that distance himself right after getting woken up. He understood the necessity, but that didn’t mean that he really cared for it in the first place.
Although, he did content himself with the fact that he had the watch for the first part of the rest of the night. Which meant that he’d just need to suffer through that part and he’d be able to return to sleep. Even if that portion of slumber would get interrupted when it was time to get up in the morning.
"Do you really think that they’ll try something to keep us from trying to get that book back?" Elin asked Jonas, her voice sounding smaller than usual.
Jonas sighed, like he really didn’t want to deal with that question right then. Not that Elmo could really blame him. Jonas had had to deal with Frank already, which Elmo had since come to realize that he’d done that out of necessity more than anything else. And that they really weren’t in The Twilight Zone or even in danger of getting pulled into it.
Elmo hoped that no one said anything about his previous insistence that that’s what was going on. Especially since he really had ignored all other possibilities. It was embarrassing enough knowing that he’d been so insistent on that without others commenting about it at this point.
"Yes, I’m confident that they’ll try something at some point," Jonas answered after a few minutes of silence. "I just don’t want this to occur before we can be ready for it."
"What’s to get ready?" Kim asked dryly. "All we really need is to make sure that they don’t get the drop on us."
"If that’s what you think, then we’ll have other problems to deal with," Elwin remarked. "You know, such as what to do about it when it occurs."
"Exactly," Jonas said, as if he was going to have said that as well. "Making a plan for contingencies would help reduce complications and potential injuries."
"Yeah, that’d be necessary if we weren’t going after someone like Stanley and his group," Kim replied dismissively. "I mean, how bad could they really be? I seriously doubt that they have much tactical experience or even strategy. They feel more like thugs and bullies than anything else, to me."