The Best Laid Plans. It’s a 6.

Even in the wreckage of the post-apocalyptic world, all but the most damaged recall the legend of the “Crossroads”, the one place the misguided and the desperate, the egoist and the fool, believe they can bargain with an entity older than the earth. Where better to sell or buy a soul than where two roads originating from opposite directions converge, the irony not lost on those lives about to change…

Jaya and her companion Seven, all golden retriever in determination and flowing coat, spent days tracking the group of rabids who took Ryan. Finally, locating them in an abandoned warehouse near the corner of Bloomdale Rd. and Redbud Dr., they were ready to implement their plan. Jaya was certain Ryan was still alive; when the question was posed, Seven barked his affirmation.

Theirs was now a rescue mission.