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Ahead of us, down the road, my sister perches on a tree branch, ready to follow my lead

My family is here with me, and all we have to do is drive away North or south – either e could be far away froht if we drive all day We are about as safe in thisthe End of Days

It els will be

Perfect sense

I start the engine We head east Toward the Resistance ca before we reach Palo Alto Paige flies ahead with her locusts while we continue to weave through dead traffic

The angels shouldn’t be attacking until dusk People should still be safe But by the ti et out of the cab The buildings are intact except for one, which is on fire

There are bodies strewn across the street The cars and walls of the school are splashed with blood I hope it’s not people blood, but I’m not confident about that

‘Stay here, Moet out of the truck to e hid in the trees like I told her to She and her locusts are nowhere in sight The Resistance probably would have seen her co if they weren’t so preoccupied

I walk toward the school, trying to see if anyone is alive I only take a few steps toward the carnage before I stop I’ the bodies

The wind blows leaves and bits of garbage People’s hair flows in the wind, thankfully covering some of their faces A piece of paper tu at the sainst the body’s shoulder, right beside the pale, dead face staring blankly into the sky It’s a flyer for Dee and Dureatest show of all!

A talent show Those guys actually thought we could have so as silly and frivolous as a talent show

I scan the faces of the bodies draped across the hoods of cars, the road, the schoolyard, hoping I won’t see Dee or Du lot A few people are whi on the asphalt

In the school, the s are sed and broken, the desks and chairs are thrown all over the yellow grass There’seach other, walk dazed and in shock

I stop to help a girl who is trying to stop the blood flow fro els and‘They cahters left for a mission We just had a skeleton crew to defend the rest of us Everyone freaked It was a bloodbath We thought it was over But word ot out that we’ve been attacked and defenseless, because then the gangs caels, not Pit lords People attacking people

I shutus into this, but ere doing stuff like this long before they cas want?’ I ask, reluctantly opening et’ She wraps a ripped shirt around the unconscious guy’s severed ar that they wanted their food back The stuff we took from them e took over their store’

The rocery store’s door couessed the Resistance had taken it frouy co the wounded into theand then head north or south without while I look for Obi No one knohere he is