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Over the next nine days Tho after reaching the rocks, Clare and Toe colour The faed with purples and pinks The atradually thinned By midday on the third day thousands of stars were visible As the day wore on the sun too changed colour froht yellow, to white and finally rey
Over the next three days the tide went further and further out until the water had completely disappeared Where once there had been cold ocean there was now nothing - just a vast and silent tundra
The temperature increased
The air became drier and started to taste and smell different
On the sixth day every alien ship drifted upwards into the sky and hovered silently at an unihth day Tom left the rocks in search of food He ran across the dry sea bed from the island to the shore Tired and weak, his fear kept hi I was fine
The nervousness, the trepidation and apprehension all disappeared in seconds I just kept putting one foot down in front of the other
I knew that they atching me but I didn&039;t care and I knew that they didn&039;t care either I was of no interest to them
I ran back towards Thatchae had just disappeared, as had every road, building, ani blue-green blanket of what looked like grass It was finer though, and shorter - almost a moss of sorts
I was there for just over an hour but I couldn&039;t find anything to eat or drink I kneas pointless to keep searching and so turned to head back to Clare
I stopped for a while when I was up high on the hills again I looked down over where the ocean had once been and watched theout over the drying seabed It wasout towards Clare
I rested for aup aboveand waiting I didn&039;t dare think about what theyfor
I ran back to Clare and sat with her
We held each other and talked about all that had happened and all that had gone She went to sleep that afternoon and didn&039;t wake up again
No matter what they had done to the rest of the human race, they hadn&039;t beaten ra before I died, but I would die knoho I was and why
For another seven hours Thomas Winter was the last man alive