Separated

Herd and Souls

The sky above them turned into a deeper shade of blue. Bright stars lit up the way, each one of them trying to out shine the other.

The moon was nearing the middle of the sky by the time the forest cleared away, and they passed the train station. They were a good mile or three past it.

Tenn sluggishly walked into his hip, his hand curling into his jacket. Violet on the other hand was alert for the most part. She'd end up walking into his arm every few minutes.

Aj was faring much better. He was wake and alert. Kenny could tell he was getting tired from the way he brought his hand up to cover his mouth every time he yawned.

It wouldn't be long till all the kids were too tired to keep going. It was getting harder to sneak around walkers with half asleep kids. There were more walkers than usual even if an explosion had happened.

As much as Kenny hoped he was wrong he knew he was only denying the inevitable. A herd was coming. The same herd Aj and him had to out run before time and time again.

If they did end up coming across it would Violet and Tenn be able to handle it? He sure prayed they could.

By the time the moon did made it to the middle of the sky, they were lucky enough to find a run down car.

It wouldn't be running anytime soon, but it will make a decent place to rest. "Violet get into the passenger side, Tenn, Aj the backs all yours."

Kenny swore he heard Violet say thank god under her breath the moment she passed him to get to the car.

The two boys were too tried to even respond and settled for collapsing into the car for a much needed nap the moment they climbed in.

Kenny couldn't help but snort at how quick they passed out. Aj should know better than to fall asleep when they're actively being pursued by who knows who.

While the kiddies, as he decided to dub them slept he settled to sleep with one eyes open. Now for him that meant he dozed off to sleep with his sole eye staring off into space giving off the illusion of him being awake.

Will he regret this later? Certainly since this always gave him a bad dry eye the next morning. After the years of waking up earlier than the sun had the chance to fully wake, he found himself massaging his eye lid to try an encourage blood flow to his eye.

If was decent fix for now till he could find a place for all of them to nap safely. Kenny stretched his arms forward successfully popping the joints in his arms and upper back.

When he turned to his side he saw Violet still peacefully asleep. He nudged her shoulder a few times however she still slept like a rock. Turing to the back he nudged Tenn like he did with Violet only to get the same result.

He knew trying to wake Aj after a night stroll was a no go. He wondered how after all this time he still hadn't picked up the trait both Clem and he had which was being a light sleeper.

If you told Kenny years before the apocalypse happened that he'd become a light sleeper he would have pushed them off his fishing boat while laughing his ass off and saying something along the lines of light sleeper my ass.

Kenny let out sigh before looking outside the dirty car window to see how many walkers were around. From what he managed to spot there was only around five.

Time for a devious lesson for his adopted kids. He quickly grabbed all their bags, leaving each of them a melee weapon. For Violet it was her trusty dusty meat cleaver, Aj got a hunters knife, and Tenn received the Sickle Kenny found tossed behind his seat.