Troubled times ahead.

Hanging up you send Gabriela off to finish the last miles of the route and you hope the way is clear as no way your group can go the other way. If not the group is going to have to back track a hell of a long way to find another route round. One thing you can do is get more info on what this group of people the Pastor is bringing together are up to and just where they are as looking at the map you really cannot see any sort of church in the area.

A short time later Mia comes round and stretches like a sexy kitten and she smiles as she sees you watching her and the fact you nudge a bag towards her. " Some clothing as your pants are useless and that shirt is trashed even more, then once you are dressed can we talk about the Pastors group and where it is based so we can dodge it if needs be as they sound like a group we will not want to meet". Snorting at that end part Mia says you do not know the half of it as she starts to get dressed.

Once dressed she tells you to bring your ride and follow her back to where she was parked and you do as she asks thinking she just wants to get off the road. What you find is a turning with a small RV parked back from the road out of sight unless you down the turning, asking what this is Mia explains. " Basically I got dumped out here to be on watch and do two things, first is to send any groups towards Pastor Rhodes way and radio her they are coming, second is for lone males and that job is for me to cuff them then take them to her as she needs in her own words breeders for the future generations".

Stunned by that last part you did not think she had gone that over the edge that way, " um what the fuck is up with that may I ask as that is weird". Telling you that you are right Mia carries on and it somehow gets even worse, " oh that is not the worst of it she has her core group who believe every crazy ass word she spouts about women shall inherit the earth and the strong will control the week, but the rest are shall we say been persuaded in some way to stay. She has maybe ten women in isolation last time I was at camp plus maybe five guys not infected, which is from what I remember basically prison, oh and about thirty plus teenagers and young adults she was able to pick up from the local foster care system who have no clue what she is planning for them".

Blinking you thought for a second you miss heard the last part and Mia only nods before answering your silently asked question. " It is not that hard really she had the space and the teenagers fell into the rough age group, over fifteen so can get the virus, parents or guardians dead or not available due to the virus and them being under eighteen years of age so by law the local officials cannot just kick them out on to the streets. Think about it a member of a respectable group comes along and says she has space for X number of people, along with women who have already had the virus to be able to take care of them. Plus she has a generous amount of supplies that mean they do not have to supply much to her, guess what the locals did they threw kids and anyone really they wanted rid off at her left and right".

Thinking in these times hell yeah somebody probably looked at her offer and jumped on it without doing any sort of real check other then to confirm she was who she said she was. But that begs the question where the fuck is she doing all this and you say just that. Mia comes over and takes the map off your hands spreads it out and takes five seconds to point it out and you wonder why you never even considered you were not looking for an actual church but church property. " Pastor Rhodes is using the church's camp here at pine lake as her new kingdom, plenty of buildings and facilities that are hardened to resist wild animals so are a lot better then your average home in defence. Not only that it is old church ground so it has a nice strong and very high stone wall around most of the grounds, is marked on all modern maps as a summer camp not a church and the main building and church are the real deal not some small thing. The teens have no clue what she is planning, they just think it is cool to be out and away from the big bad city with plenty of supplies and are waiting for the government to fix things, a few have done a runner but for a while the locals just kept on dumping teens and troubled people on her so much so I have no idea what the real numbers she has now compared to the start".

The dam place is smack bang in the middle of this whole mess every way past it apart from the road you are on now has been blocked to prevent it been used in some way. No way that is a coincidence you think and Mia confirms this, " Pastor Rhoads said something a few weeks ago after I brought in a couple, that makes me think she is responsible for or convinced someone in the surrounding towns to do most of the blocked roads in the area. She pointed out that now the bridge is no longer an option and the service area has been taken care of the only road to the highway is the one I was keeping an eye on and that I needed to be ever vigilant".

You think it is best to stay well away from this crazy Pastor and ask as many questions as you can in the next hour before you hear the sound of Gabriela's SUV coming back so head out to see what she found.