Chapter 19
I left the road we had travelled on for over a week and walked into the field to rejoin Al who was strangely silent. He must have heard the pistol shots and the screams but decided that he didn’t want to know.
We ambled across several fields in darkness, descending gradually until we reached the ancient runway and entered the floodlighting of the Robot Crew Assembly stockade. Inside the fence that must have held thousands at one point, only a few dozen remained, offline and waiting for shipping orders.
Al had found his voice and said, “Looks like we arrived at a good time. This way.” he said and again I felt like a futuristic Tin Man walking further down the yellow brick road.
We walked around the perimeter while humans sped to and fro on important business to do with the sh
