All Chapters of Soul Eaters: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

In the dancing orange and yellow flames of the roaring campfire I found myself seeing vision after vision of the bloody sights that had been burned into my retinas. No matter how many times I tried to force my mind away from all the moments haunting me they still played like a sick movie over and over again. It hadn't been the first Eater I had killed, nor would it be the last. I was repulsed the moment the truth crossed through my frayed mind. But even those justifications didn't help the raw churning guilt that was eating away at me. We had decided to stop for the night in a circle of rocks. The large boulders weren't enough to hide the fire that we had started, but the Eaters never seem to notice the fires. As long as we weren't in their sight, they never bothered us. It was the flesh and blood… and soul… people that were going to be the issue. But the land around us was flat and it was easy to see all the way to the small hills that surrounded this valley. The sliver truck that

"Damn it," I cursed slamming my fist on the seat. "Mommy! You said a bad word!" Johnny exclaimed. "I know, honey. I'm sorry," I replied halfhearted. He gave me a justified nod.We were sitting at the barbed wire section of a well-built roadblock. Cars were lined up from one side of the road the next. Between the cars and the barbed wire was torn up furniture, tables, postal boxes and whatever else they could find to buffer the spare room. It was set just perfectly so no vehicles or big groups could come through. If they wanted in that badly they had to walk in single file. On each side was nothing but marsh lands. Water and grass land went on for miles in each direction and the road had been laid right down the middle. There was no way we were going to be able to drive around.The silence in the truck was almost deafening as we each looked around. I knew we all felt the same wave of disappointment as we all realized that we were thoroughly trapped. "Well," Tom started as he turned

"You won't make it, I know that for a fact," the woman stated with complete certainty. She walked over to me, and her bright green eyes sized me up. My heart sank to my toes. Exactly how far were we from the boarder? What were we going to do if we couldn't get further?"But, if you stay here with us tonight, we'll move some of these cars out of the way in the morning and we'll let you get your truck through," she offered out of the blue.It should have been a god send; a real blessing that she had offer us shelter like that. But, instead of feeling lucky, I was suspicious. First, they didn't even want us to come through the barricade and now she insisted we spend the night? "Are you kidding me?" I snapped. "What?" she replied in defense. "You shot… my companion. You had us at gun point. Now you want us to stay with you out of the blue? All I asked for was away around the roadblock so we could leave. Why?" I asked not even bothering to keep the suspicion out of my voice. "Beca

The silence was back. An angry, disappointed, and heartbroken silence. One that I experience with Benjamin after I told him that his parents were never coming back. I hated this. I didn't want the weight of the world on my shoulders, and I didn't understand why fate would give it to me. I wasn't infallible, I wasn't unbreakable. I was just Vicki Anderson, working mom and wife. I was... or had been anyway... a normal person until all this bullshit went down. At times I found myself wondering if I would ever actually go back to the woman I had been before. My kids, whose weary eyes darted around the abandoned town searching for the danger that they knew was lurking behind every door; were a walking testament to lost innocence and it was something I could never repair.The weight on my shoulders never felt heavier. "Is there some where we can sit down and eat?" I finally asked changing the subject. "My boys haven't had a meal since breakfast, and I know they must be hungry." Like som

Benjamin pumped his fist behind Erin's back and gave me a grateful look. Anger darkened Craig's eyes and told me I was in serious trouble for accepting Erin's offer. The boys came running up excitedly to Benjamin talking at once telling them about all the junk food they had eaten. With the patience only an older sibling would have, he listened to their animated prattle and still manage to make the right noises or comments. Finally, when he mentioned going to the store the boys begged to go with him. They all looked at me with big pleading eyes. Even Erin was addled enough to seem to want to spend some time with my sugar crazed children. "Are you sure about this?" I asked them both. "You know I love hanging out with the kids," Benny insisted. "I'd love to play with them," Erin reassured me. "I haven't seen anyone else in days.""Please, Mom. Please, please, please," Marcus and Johnny begged in tandem. "Alright, alright. Benny, take the boys up and show them where they'll sleep. Boy