You’ve been preparing for the worst for a long, long time. Now, everyone else is panicking, while you have everything in place. You go looking for neighbors, to invite them into the shelter. The only one around is your neighbor’s daughter, Cricket. You bring her into the shelter, forcibly, and secure the door only moments before the ground shakes. Cricket stops fighting, understanding only a small portion of what’s happening.
That… that was a bomb. A big one.
She sits on the floor, trying to understand.
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