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Armageddon’s Children
Book 1 of The Genesis of Shannara
By Terry Brooks
Chapter
ONE
HE IS FAST asleep in his bed on the night that the demon and the
once-men come for his family. They have been watching the compound for days,
studying its walls and the routine of the guards who ward them. They have
waited patiently for their chance, and now it has arrived. An advance party is
over the walls and past the guards. They have opened the gates from the inside
to let in the others, and now all are pouring into the compound. In less than
five minutes, everything has been lost.
He doesn’t realize this when his father shakes him awake, but he
knows something is wrong.
“Logan, get up.” Urgency and fear are apparent in his father’s
voice.
Logan blinks against the beam of the flashlight his father holds,
one of two they still possess. He sees his brother dressing across the way,
Pulling on his shirt and pants, moving quickly, anxiously. Tyler isn’t griping,
isn’t saying anything, doesn’t even look over at him. His father bends close,
his strong features all planes and angles at the edges of the flashlight’s
beam. His big hand grips his son’s shoulder and squeezes. “It’s time for us to
leave here, Logan. Put on your clothes and your pack and wait by the trapdoor
with Tyler.
Your mother and I will be along with Megan.”
His sister. He looks around, but doesn’t see her. Outside, there is
shouting and the sound of gunfire. A battle is being fought. He knows now what
has happened, even without seeing it. He has heard it talked about all of his
life, the day their enemies would find a way to break through, the day that the
walls and gates and guards and defenses would finally give way. It has happened
all across the United States. It has happened all over the world. No one is
safe anywhere. Maybe no one will ever be safe again.
He rises quickly now and dresses. His brother already has his pack
strapped across his back and tosses Logan his. The packs have been sitting in a
comer of his bedroom for as far back as he can remember. Each month, they are
unpacked, checked, and repacked. His father is a careful man, a planner, a
survivor. He has always assumed this day would come, even though he assured his
family it would not. Logan was not fooled. His father did not speak of it
directly, but in the spaces between the words of reassurance were silent
warnings. Logan did not miss them, did not ignore their implications.
“Hurry, slug,” Tyler hisses at him, going out the door. He fini ............

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