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and Alison. I told them to make haste for the farm. We need to talk.” The red glisten from the terrestrial object bled into the room, highlighting Robb’s dark hair laced with a hint of his mother’s curls.
    “Do you know what time it is?” questioned Abraham, adjusting his glasses. The clock on the wall confirmed the late hour, but Robb didn’t seem to care. “Where is your wife, Robb?”
    “Tori went to warn her dad.”
    “Warn Glenn about what? That you’ve gone off your rocker?” Glenn was Abraham’s closest neighbor and Emme and Hunter’s other grandpa. The crazy man was far from someone Abraham would call a friend. They had plenty of disputes between them over the last year.
    At that strident moment, Beth rushed down the stairs, threading her frail arms around her trembling grandchildren. “What is the meaning of this?” she said.
    Abraham pounded his fists. “That fool of a boy is going to fight for the South.”
    Her thin lips quivered as she hugged little Emme in a somber embrace. “Robb, is it true?”
    “Tori and I must go if the world is to survive what is coming. The apocalypse is on its way.”
    “Why do always talk in riddles?” snapped Abraham, wanting to slap the stupid out of his son.
    “Are you listening to me? Get off your high horse and use your brain.”
    Abraham was more than frustrated with his dim-witted son. Robb always thought he knew best, but he didn’t understand respect.
    “Hush now. That’s your father,” Beth spat. “Show some respect.”
    Abraham exchanged dark glances with his son.
    After several deep breaths, Robb turned back to his mother. Beth was always willing to listen to reason. “I’m leaving my children with you. I’ll return as soon as possible.”
    With a dejected look, Beth wiped the wet corners of her coffee-colored eyes. A grandmother always loved her grandchildren in a way she never could her own children. Abraham knew this to be true. Both Hunter and Emme melted into her warm embrace. However, the little girl continued to wail. It was like a banshee’s cry to Abraham as he cringed.
    Abraham fought his way up despite the throbbing numbness climbing up his left side. His shaggy white eyebrows on his old face cut together.
    “You’ll need guns.” Robb shifted back toward the door. “And shelter after the bombs settle.”
    “Guns are illegal here,” snapped Abraham as Emme fell silent upon Beth’s hammering chest.
    “Is everything okay?” questioned Tori as she burst into the house.
    Everyone muttered a different word for no. Nobody was fine; in fact, it was the complete opposite.
    Abraham saw the terror in Tori’s body language. Her straight, yellow hair fell down her slender back. “Robb, we have to go,” she said to her husband.
    “The rest of my brothers and sisters haven’t arrived,” Robb replied.
    “My daddy is coming,” Tori muttered with hollow eyes. She ran to her frightened children and took them in her loving arms. “It’s going to be okay,” she assured them.
    Robb sighed. “I thought you said he wasn’t a problem?”
    The scattering of loose gravel alerted them of someone else’s arrival. Was it the rest of the Abraham’s children or Tori’s crazy old father?
    “The world is about to change. The North and the South are getting ready to launch a barrage of nuclear devices,” Robb said.
    Abraham watched Robb clear the blemished coffee table between them. A pile of books and a glass tub of shiny hard candy crashed onto the carpeted floor. The sharp sound echoed across the space as tension between father and son intensified.
    Robb swung up a hardened suitcase with a bang and clinked open the two plastic snaps. Inside was a variety of guns including assault rifles, hunting rifles, shotguns, and even pistols. Robb pointed back to another suitcase near the door and spoke soft and easy. “It’s stuffed with extra ammo. Hide it in the barn or one of the hunting cabins. Bury some of it out in the woods. I’m sure you