*Finished installing. Now on to the Start button. I chose NORMAL MODE since I am a chicken.*
Dark room. The shadows do not lend enough light to outline a figure sitting amidst the rubble. She's fiddling with a small box. It's a camcorder, a relic from days before the Event. It's still working, though. Probably a testament to the product quality. She turns it on. A man talks from within the screen.
The man talks about his gears which are not much. How he has to really be careful on using everything.
*Takes control of the man*
The sign says 'Welcome to Haventon'. It means nothing. Like everything else around here. Lives, that's worth something.
I pass by what used to be the main highway into Haventon. Read the signs and where to turn. Names and things that really don't mean anything any more. Turn right, a dead end. I go left. There's a gap that opens to a long way down. Jump over it and done. Huh, never fancied rivers before, and after the Event, they just rush faster, like they wanna suck your life along with wherever it ends. Only way is up.
When climbing, I gotta be careful. I'm an amateur climber at best. The climb upward takes a lot, and when I finally get where I can stand, I'm already weak. I need to rest a moment. And wow, so that's where all the water's gone.
Enough sight-seeing. Time to drop down. Down here, it's clearer. The world seems to have been split into two. The great river that lies underneath this bridge looks like what the Egyptians must have seen thousands of years ago when the Israelites escaped through the Red Sea.
(Later)
Goddamit! I almost fell!
I pushed myself to press on, and fatigue comes calling.
From the top of the bridge, the city seems like a huge battleship, immobile yet daunting. Ghostly in the whitish fog. Are they there? Because that place doesn't look fit for the living. We'll soon find out.
I can see something burning in the distance. Just hope that friendlies are there, and not - whatever that still linger in there.
Now I am in the sewer. This is probably the only way into the city.
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