Kenopsia - Chapter 17: Chapter 17

I sat inside so many layers.
The office was absolutely filled with every soft and warm thing I could find.
And it was still cold.
"Jesus..." I sat in the dark, many blankets over my body and wrapped up and it was still cold, good how much did heating help? Damn.
Despite it all this office was warmer then outside.
I still left the safety of it and headed out after putting on a few more layers.
I was wearing ankle high boots with several layers on to keep as much of the warmth in, like stockings, fuzzy socks, slim fit pants, sweat pants and those anti-water thin pants, up top I had a bra, a tanktop, a turtle neck, a hoodie to pull on, a thinner zip up hoodie and a coat with thick fake fur in it.
I wore my masks and ski goggles now to keep the warmth, they protected my face after all with those thick ski gloves, a beanie pulled down over my ears as I hugged myself and stepped outside, so many layers made it harder to move, making it all feel stiff but it was worth the warmth.
I sighed, looking at the snow on the ground as I stepped to my water.... Surface frozen solid.
I picked up a hammer I got not long ago and walked to it, hitting a hole through the top layer of ice.
I filled my mug and brought it back inside before going out, I will feel colder easier if I drink cold water.
"Dammit." I cursed how fast the days go by despite how slow they also tend to feel, winter had come faster and I have yet to go to the police station or to find something that would burn for heat.
I found one of those heat packets that have liquid in them and you press a corner making them turn solid and hot but I needed boiling water to make it dissolve to liquid again and to be reused so I am keeping them for the worst of times.
And it was now of all time that the fact that I wasn't able to clean up was starting to bother me, I could wash my clothes by hand and hang them to dry and rinse myself off if it really bothered me before winter snuck up on me and froze one of my drying pants into a solid sheet of fabric.
I walked in place, my toes cold in my boots, having the less layers.
It was good that it rained a lot here for water but not when it was winter.
"What am I even doing outside?" But I knew what, distracting myself.
I guess the husks froze or weren't in marching mood because I didn't hear many.
I never left the walls since winter started, I was bored so I walked around outside, fed the fish, watered the plant, talked to myself.
I sighed through my nose, always through nose, my PE teacher told us to breathe through our noses when we can as that already heats the air up and keeps it from bringing cold in your lungs and filters dirt and I am not trying to catch a cold.
Yeah I am not trying to get sick, cutting my hand back then was a really bad thing but being sick is worst, it could completely incapacitate me, so feverish that I just can't move and maybe unable to heal since medicine has gone rare.
Sickness could mean the end of my run.
"I will survive even if humanity doesn't deserve it." I muttered, still wanting to scratch off where that stupid Adam touched me, feeling disgusting when I thought of him.... He taught me humanity doesn't deserve to go on any longer.
I turned and went inside, fuck winter.