Free Search for Safety: Killing the Dead Book Two by Richard Murray Page A

will have to keep off of it for a few days and then you should be ok to get around a little.” She told me as she pulled a small pack of pills from her pocket. “Painkillers” she said as she tossed them to me. I eagerly swallowed two with a spoonful of porridge.
    “So what is the plan?” I asked her.
    “Well since we have a few people who aren’t ready to travel yet, we are going to have to stay here for a bit.”
    “It can’t be too long, we need to keep moving.”
    “I know. This place has its own gas supply and we have enough food to get by for a little time.” Lily said.
    “Someone needs to head back to strip that farm, from what I saw they had a nice supply of things we could use” I told her waving an arm in the general direction of the farm.
    “Pat and Rachel are going in the van this morning. Cass said she would go with them to get her and her brothers stuff too.” Lily said, “Cass told me what you did for her.” She added.
    “What do you mean?”
    “Rescued her and let her come here. Why did you do that?”
    I shrugged at her and ate some more porridge. I wasn’t in the mood to get into another argument about why I did something. Lily sat for a moment waiting for a reply before the sound of Maggie and Claire noisily descending the stairs distracted her. She left to dish out breakfast and I was alone once more with my thoughts.
    Pat was down stairs a short while later to unload the various supplies we had stored in the van. I was delighted to see him bring in the two bags of books that I had taken from the mobile library. At my request he dropped them on the couch next to me and I began to sort through them.
    I had tried to pick and choose books for their use to me in surviving but in my haste I had picked a few items up that would be no use at all. I immediately discarded the ‘How to crochet’ book. The book on sign language I put on the pile I had designated as possibly useful. Having some basic signs we could use when speaking was dangerous could be useful at some point.
    I had found several books on the plants and wildlife you would find in the UK, one at least was a very basic introductory guide but a couple of the others had plenty of pictures of the plants and where to find them along with their various uses. Those books went into the definitely useful pile.
    The rest of my morning was spent sorting books. The several biographies by various TV survivalists went into the possibly useful pile, they would need to be read fully to see what information they contained. The basic medical reference books went into the definitely useful pile, I hadn’t expected anything more than a basic ‘how to bandage’ yourself book so that was a really nice find.
    A few books on farming and animal husbandry and one on the Stone Age tribes of England. That was mainly a book for the kids to look through and learn some interesting things, but it did have the benefit of explaining how those ancient tribesmen made their traps and weapons from local materials.
    My most useful find were several books in the ‘back to basics’ genre that went into detail about the arts that had been lost to most people. In the few books of the series I had were the instructions on how to build a basic shelter and forage for food. Preserving food, fishing and rafting were included. All subjects that I knew little about.
           I sat on the couch for the rest of the day reading and attempting to think of ways to survive this apocalypse. Claire made an evening meal which Maggie brought into the living room for me. She was still quiet and shy around me but didn’t seem scared which was an improvement.
    According to the clock on the mantle it was after eight when Pat, Rachel and Cass returned. They were all excited and had the van loaded with all kinds of useful things. They had left the clothes of the dead men as no one wanted to wear anything those people had been wearing.
    They had a great deal more food to add to our