Sunday, July 08, 2007
Sunshine Sallie
2037. Seattle.
It was already 10am, but Sallie had to risk it. Food was low, water gone. Two hours past safe-curfew, the mercury had already hit 245 and was only going to climb. Sallie knew, if she didn't find what she needed by Noon, she was done.
But her crew was in dire need. Sam Shade had been caught in the big freeway melt, and couldn't walk now. Mary Mirage was the only one with medic training, so she couldn't go. Harry Heat and Solar Solidad just lost their kid, Sunny. Their heads wouldn't be in it. The others were even worse off.
Sallie was all they had. If she could make it to the Lake Washington Canyon, she could drop into the caves before Noon Death, have a chance of waiting out the worst of it. If she could hold out till Midnight, she could reach the wells and make the climb back out in the cool 156 degree night air.
At least it was still Winter, Sallie thought.
