Chapter 52
Dusk fell as the university group reached what one of their strange rescuers, the one named Sam Black, had called “the village.” Upon first hearing the word, Melisse's heart had leaped. People and civilization. Electronics. Means of communication. But then, as the group stepped out of the forest, and she caught her first glimpse of it, her excitement died.
The land directly in front of them had been cleared for the distance of a football field before reaching a ten-foot high wooden fence with stakes at the top. Visible above the fence were only a single large building and what looked like a guard tower.
Melisse hoped this wasn’t a trap. Rempart and the other students had immediately trusted Black and Tieg, and treated them like saviors. Melisse wasn’t so sure. Also, her thoug
