Chapter 37: CH 037: Dave’s bad luck (MR1)
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As the group filed into the truck, Dave made the decision to stay at the front with the driver. The others climbed into the back, their weary bodies grateful for the small comfort the vehicle provided.
To his surprise, Silas, the man who had vehemently opposed his plan earlier, climbed into the front seat beside him. Dave raised an eyebrow at him, uncertain of what to make of this sudden change of heart. The man had made it clear that he wasn’t willing to follow them before, so to see him now, silently settling into the truck, was unexpected.
Dave could only assume that, after thinking it over, Silas had realized there was no other choice but to go along. There was no sense in staying behind, no sense in trying to survive on their own in the midst of this chaos.
’No one in their right mind would want to stay out here,’ Dave thought. The beasts, the situation, it was all too dangerous.
Silas didn’t say a word as he buckled himself in, and Dave didn’t push the matter. Instead, he turned his attention to the road ahead as the truck rumbled to life. The sound of the engine was a welcome distraction from the gnawing thoughts in his head.
It wasn’t long before they were moving, the boulderback beasts now a distant memory, as their grotesque forms were lost in the rearview mirror. The silence in the truck was heavy, each of them lost in their own thoughts.
Dave’s mind kept on drifting back to the events of the day. Though this wasn’t the first time someone had died on an expedition, death was an ever-present danger at the present state of the world. But no one had expected Gunther’s death to happen like this.