She nods. It feels naive now, but hindsight, all that.
"I... still don't really know what happened, you know? In the space of a few weeks, communication failed, government broke down, supply chains just... stopped. Supermarkets were empty and most of us had no idea how to make our own food. Those with weapons started taking from those who didn't, and law enforcement and the military had no orders so they were just doing whatever the highest ranking among them thought was best. Shooting rioters, disposing of entire wards of infected, hoarding supplies -"
She shrugs, sounding detached now, because she doesn't want to dig into it too deeply.
"In a last ditch effort to control the spread of the virus, military planes dropped bombs on... well I'm assuming a lot of major cities, but mostly I just know about mine, don't I?" It was chaos, with no clear direction, every person for themselves for the most part and she shivers faintly.
"But the hardest part now. The hardest part to keep living with. Was just suddenly everyone I ever knew being gone. I couldn't call my cousin in the next city over, or text my friends from work. There was no electricity, no internet. And that's just... if they weren't outright dead, which I'm sure they all are now, but I'll never know what happened. They're just gone." She looks up. "And every time we come back from a breach, it happens again. All at once, people I thought I'd grow old with. Just gone."
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"I... still don't really know what happened, you know? In the space of a few weeks, communication failed, government broke down, supply chains just... stopped. Supermarkets were empty and most of us had no idea how to make our own food. Those with weapons started taking from those who didn't, and law enforcement and the military had no orders so they were just doing whatever the highest ranking among them thought was best. Shooting rioters, disposing of entire wards of infected, hoarding supplies -"
She shrugs, sounding detached now, because she doesn't want to dig into it too deeply.
"In a last ditch effort to control the spread of the virus, military planes dropped bombs on... well I'm assuming a lot of major cities, but mostly I just know about mine, don't I?" It was chaos, with no clear direction, every person for themselves for the most part and she shivers faintly.
"But the hardest part now. The hardest part to keep living with. Was just suddenly everyone I ever knew being gone. I couldn't call my cousin in the next city over, or text my friends from work. There was no electricity, no internet. And that's just... if they weren't outright dead, which I'm sure they all are now, but I'll never know what happened. They're just gone." She looks up. "And every time we come back from a breach, it happens again. All at once, people I thought I'd grow old with. Just gone."