Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.*

[bending_sickle]

He hated this. Hated watching Icarus walk out there alone to play bait. Sure, the second team was guarding the perimeter, and Chip knew he could count on them to keep the infected off their backs. But that wasn’t what worried him. The fish they were after was so much worse than the hordes of raving mad people filling the city. What Icarus was trying to hook, and what Crowley was hoping to catch, was the sort of thing that set the gas station on fire in the first place.

1757 / 50000 words. 4% done!


* Oliver Goldsmith