Chapter 29Adam had trouble remembering the last time he'd been stuck in a traffic jam. The roads in this brave new world – a world which offered a strange mixture of the new and promising, juxtaposed against the ruins of that fateful week – got busy, but never offered the total gridlock of the world before the Reaper. He utilised an empty stretch of motorway to ease the RX7's accelerator pedal to the floor, and the car cruised easily past a hundred miles an hour as it raced through Hampshire and on toward Wiltshire. He glanced in the rear-view mirror at Oriyanna, who was cramped uncomfortably into one of the two tiny back seats. Adam had never had the need to take a third person in his car and now he realised just how impractical it was. The small back seats seemed to have been thrown in a
