June
20, 2017
The
last couple days have been really busy. Brian said he knew someone
who lived near town that was a gun fanatic. He even stayed in that
house when he was trying to make his way home and there was no one,
alive or undead,in the house. We decided to go back and get whatever
he had. A couple of others said they knew where there were houses
that had multiple weapons and lots of ammo, too. I got a map of our
area out and we started marking approximate locations for stashes of
what we needed to take care of the town group.
We
ended up with five locations and sent out a fairly large group to
make the rounds and collect all the weapons and ammo. From there, we
would see if we needed to look for more. The hope was that they would
find enough for us to put the plan into action and soon, too.
While
they were off collection the weapons, the three of us went back to interrogate our prisoner again. We went over and over everything again
and added in a couple of questions the others had brought up. We were
making sure his story didn't change so we knew he was telling the
truth about the details. I'm not proud of what we did to Marco, but
we did what had to be done to keep our people safe. Richard had
studied torture techniques and he had learned well. It started with
fingernails, a needle in the quick and then removal of the nail with
pliers. Other things I saw done to Marco, a ton of small cuts in
really sensitive places, pincers used to apply pressure and even
hammers to break bones. There were a lot more horrible things done to
him, but I want to try to forget most of them. At the end, there
wasn't much left of Marco to question and once we were all satisfied
that he had told us everything he knew, we put him out of his misery.
It
took all day and into evening before our people were back from their
search and there had hit the payload at a couple of the houses. At
least 50 rifles and twice that many handguns. Thousands of rounds of
ammo for each caliber and holsters, too.
Jake,
Alex, Alice and Brian left this morning to relieve the group that has
been watching the town group. They will be there for two day before
we would usually send another group to replace them, but the plan is
that they will head back and most of our group will meet them in a
house we agreed on at the edge of town. They'll let us know where the
town group is set up and we'll set ourselves up around them so we can
take them out all at once. I'm sorry that we have to kill all of
them, even the women and any children that might be with them. From
what Marco said, we can't trust any of them and after what they've
been through, we won't be able to help them with the trauma anyway.
We argued and argued about it at the meeting where we made our plan,
but we have to be practical. Marco said some of the women had turned
to the men and would report on the other women. They would act like
they were on our side, but could never be trusted. We can't afford to
feed and harbor people who might turn on us.
It's
a sad fact of life in the apocalypse. Just as we couldn't keep anyone
with bad health issues alive, we can't keep people who we know we
can't trust. We also can't afford to imprison people for long
periods of time or let them go if someone does something really bad.
We have to have the death penalty for our safety. And I never thought
I would say that. I was always against the death penalty, but now, it
is the only practical thing to do.
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