“Nothing is easy in this era, even with all of their advanced technology,” Xathan confirmed.“We’ll have to force people to work in the factories and farms and few of them will have any experience with their new vocations.”
“Sometimes, I wish this wasn’t our final war,” Rahab said too quietly for their guards to hear him.“Things were far simpler in the past eras.”
“I agree, Lord,” Xathan said, but it was a lie.He much preferred the modern conveniences of this era.It was a pity everything had been shut down when the Rapture had struck.It would take decades to rebuild what had been lost.He doubted the world would ever be the same again now that only scumbags and degenerates were left.Culture, art and philosophy were dead.Now there was only greed, depravity and death left.Good people would no doubt be born, but they would be heavily outnumbered.
Rahab returned to the gym with his five guards in tow.Xathan decided to sweep the city to find the worst of the flooding problems.He stopped just a short distance from the Empire State Building when he saw water leaking from an apartment on the sixth floor of a building.With a sigh, he entered and sprinted up the stairs.His guards stayed outside.
Slamming into the locked door, he raced to the bathroom to find an overflowing bathtub.He turned the faucets off and reached into the water to pull the plug.“One down, probably two thousand more to go,” he grumbled, wishing he’d removed his jacket before unplugging the water.
He retreated back downstairs and stepped onto the sidewalk, squeezing the water out of his sodden sleeve.He didn’t notice the red light on the camera just down the street.
Chapter Thirty-Six
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ASOFT CHIMING NOISEcame from the great room while the cambions were getting breakfast ready.Xan raced to the desk to check her computer screen.“It’s happening!”she called out in glee and sat down on her chair.
Her family came running to see what was going on.Amaros beat them all and loomed beside her.“What’s happening?”he demanded.
“The water is back on and buildings are already flooding,” the cambion said in glee.She pointed at a rivulet flowing from beneath the door of a store.
A human spotted it and panicked.He fled to the Empire State Building a short distance away.
“How did you set up the computer to alert you that some of the buildings are flooding?”Zoe asked.Her hand was on her barely rounded belly.It seemed cambions’ babies grew faster than normal.Amaros moved aside so the others could watch the monitor.He put his arm around his mate to hold her to his side.
“I could explain it to you, but you just wouldn’t get it,” Xanthia said, then snickered.
“Why didn’t the idiot just turn the water off?”Vic asked.It was killing her to curb her fake swearing, but she was making a valiant effort.
“Not everyone is as smart as you, my beautiful mate,” Cam said.
“I’m going to skip training and compile videos of all the mayhem that’s about to unfold,” the computer genius said.
Vic opened her mouth to complain, then shut it again.They all needed a diversion from the monotony of training every day.“I wish we had popcorn,” she said instead.
“Look!”Grace said when the screen changed to a different camera.“There’s your dad, Xan!”
