Chapter 8
Yawning, Ken climbed up onto her horse and waited for Yuuki to do the same. She’d gotten maybe an hour of rest, and her mood suffered significantly because of it. When Yuuki was ready, they headed for the suburb’s town center to look for a liquor store.
There was one, but it’d been burned along with most of a strip mall. To Yuuki’s dismay, Ken decided they should go into the city.
It took a couple hours just to get there. For a place they knew was occupied, it sounded eerily quiet. Their horses’ movements echoed off the buildings. Yuuki busied herself with writing down some of the government graffiti. “Failed acquisition,” was repeated throughout.
Eventually, the couple hit a roadblock. A large tangle of barbed wire spread across the entire street and sidewalks. In the distan
