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"I’ll go with you," Daniels offered

Using a stick they’d brought in for the fire, Nolita made a torch Then she and Daniels went back into the kitchen to explore and hopefully bring back soradually began to feel aard I was never one for so to sleep yet

"So what’s your story?" I asked hied "I don’t have one"

"I don’t know anything about you," I said "I don’t even know your first name"

"It’s Charlie" He smiled at that and extended his hand to ," I said and shook his hand "Nice to s out in front of hih"

"How’d you end up the quarantine?" I asked

"I was in the army," Boden said "This was back before the zoe, and there were no jobs in the town I grew up in So I joined the ar I’d do a couple years in the Middle East, build a career, then coet a job, all that"

"And then the virus happened," I said

"I’d finished basic training, but I hadn’t gone overseas," Boden said "And then instead of fighting an ene my fellow Americans"

"So you were in it from the start?" I asked

"Yeah" He chewed the inside of his cheek and rubbed the back of his neck "At first we started rounding up the zoether to test the the and what they were," Boden said "They were newly turned, and they still looked like people They o the, ‘This must be how the Nazis felt’"