Stand Against Infinity (7 page)

Early the next morning, Samuel stepped out of
his house, as ready for what might await him as he ever would be.
It was still dark, but he knew daylight would be coming soon. He
heard a shuffle of feet and a red haired man came into view from
around the corner of his house.

“I heard about your plan,” he said. “I’m
Chavez. If it’s not too late, may we come?”

“We?” said Samuel. Slowly, four more men
stepped around the corner. On the other side of a red haired man,
Wallace grinned at him.

“We want to be a part of it. We’re already
packed and we’ve said our goodbyes. We want to go with you.”

“You know there will be hard days ahead?”
asked Samuel.

“Yes.”

“Sleepless nights?”

“Yes.”

“And it will be dangerous,” said Samuel.

“We know all that,” said a big, light-skinned
man. “We want to come anyway.”

“Let’s be off then,” said Samuel.

“Where do we go?” asked one man, who was
shorter than the rest.

Samuel stared at the city on the horizon,
twinkling in the early morning darkness. “Toward the lights.”

This is just the beginning of the story about
Samuel and his companions. Their adventure has a long way to go, so
go ahead and get the next book in the series,
The Last Place to
Stand
and keep the adventure going.

Happy reading!

I am grateful to my wife, Christine, who gave
me some very helpful suggestions and to my beta readers: Damien
Rosario, Chanel Harper, Yvonne Tran, Kyle Carney, Jeremy Ishimaru,
Stephanie Fernandez, Andy Cho, Tyanna Le, Chris Esquivel, Elaine
Nguyen, Bruk Mehari, Jeffrey Cabalar, Judy Le, and Mark Sagum.

Aaron K. Redshaw grew up in Scottsburg,
Oregon but decided one day to take a hint from the geese. He now
lives in Scotts Valley, California where he can work on his tan and
admire other people’s surfboards. He enjoys the company of his
beautiful wife, his two gifted children, and one dusty beast of a
car.