Chapter 2At the end of the next three days, they arrived in Lawrence, Kansas. The two immediately caught sight of a small boy on a bicycle. But he pedaled away as soon as he heard the horses. Ken didn’t gallop after him, despite every interest in doing so. It could be a trap. Instead, she and Yuuki wandered slowly into the town, looking for signs of life. The only graffiti they saw was a single large scribble that, according to Yuuki, said “city not clear.”
Either the authors sprayed that on any town that hadn’t yet been checked, or they received some resistance when they arrived.
It wasn’t ten minutes of riding before they understood. A group of men and teenage boys rolled up to them in a diesel truck, armed to the teeth and wearing red shirts with camo pants. A gang, they both surmised
