Kenopsia - Chapter 78: Chapter 78
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"Aaaah! I can't get it!" Jasmine called out, shaking the bow she found in a sports shop.
"I cannot help you I don't know how to shoot one and only seen in movies how to shoot." She had been trying to shoot the wooden palette we set up against the wall and spray painted a dote on. "At least you are hitting the wood now." I tried to reassure her but she only pouted.
"You can do much more then I could." Lucy tried but Jasmine just nodded at her, I guess she is picking up my mistrust more and more each day.
Like I told them with the chickens that day, I indeed had them help me set up the metal fencing around an area, it was much faster to be three to carry one instead of me dragging them along along, same with the fabric bags of concrete mix.
At least they do listen to me and do their best to prove they wanna live, I guess I could become more lenient? I don't know, it only has been three days.
I finished dumping the water in the concrete mix bucket which I poured over the cloth bags of wet concrete.
I had used them here to do a lot of advance on this project, even dragging down fencing on the river banks to put one there as it was just the right length to barely fit there to make even that part safe.
I scribbled in another line on my own map and sighed.
I almost was able to smile as my little cube of protect area where only the bridge was a liability too.
"Look here, we've done it." I held it to Adar and he looked at it.
"It looks so small compared to the other parts of the town." He said, handing it along to Jasmine.
"Yeah but still something, I was just able to do two walls before, the only threat now are extremely strong, drug doped, husks running them down, the sniffers that can jump them and the bridge that they walk across. The bridge is full of cars as obstacles so it will trap the few husks, we basically have a living space with no husk and outside my and your home."
"You know a lot about this town." Lucy said as she got the map to look at and handed it back soon after.
"I lived here and went to this school before the end of the world, I never left to explore the world, I hunkered down and survived here since the start." I said.
"Really?" She asked. "With Lexie we fled our home town when the husks pointed their ugly faces." Seems they picked up on the naming I had for them, she seemed sadder mentioning her friend but well I also took a while to get over my father and the two others... I hope you are alright up there in the clouds you all...
"And I had been on a school outing before we went into lock-down at the hotel when this all started and stuck together as a class for the first year." Adar said too.
"Well I was alone for at least a year here but I still didn't leave and I suppose that's why we are all alive today."
"Yeah I guess so." He smirked.
"Anyhow." I stretched, my back protesting, that's not good, I should put off any heavy lifting, I can't hurt my back more and risk any permanent injuries. "What did you even do before this? I was some oddball biologist student which led me know how to use microscopes to see that it was indeed some liquid transmitted virus thingy that fucked the world sideways. Anything else I learnt from others or alone while surviving." I sat on the ground as I watched Jasmine try to shoot the bow again, since none of us know how to shoot one it will be training and errors that will teach her how to get it down and it will take a while.
"I was working on a higher education astronomy, not really helpful in the apocalypse is it?" Adar said, having already been sitting on a curb. "I guess I did learn things while surviving too since well, I am still here."
"And you?" I asked Lucy.
"It's lame."
"Please, can't be lamer then my 'mouse trap for bird' trick I told you about."
"At least it still works from time to time, I was starting an apprenticeship as a tattoo artist, no use whatsoever, even your thing Adar could let you look up at the stars and basically be able to tell us if we were facing east, north or south."
"I was a biology student, not better either." I said. "Jasmine here knows how to fish, she can set up traps, I barely could figure it out with the help of a book with pictures of what to do. Don't look down so much on your skills, each of us remaining humans have something in common, the fight to survive."
"Yeah plus inks and stuff still exist, maybe we could do like in movies, some sort of team tattoo."
"You are so lame Adar." She told him with a grin. "Stick and pokes really? You can do that yourself."
I looked away as he started teasing her, looking through the bars and down the empty street, still feeling alone despite it all and I guess that would be a feeling all us humans would feel as long as we live, cursed to wander this earth like the husks.
I really wanted to feel better but couldn't, the old dread of people dying around me when I let them in coming back full force..
"I cannot help you I don't know how to shoot one and only seen in movies how to shoot." She had been trying to shoot the wooden palette we set up against the wall and spray painted a dote on. "At least you are hitting the wood now." I tried to reassure her but she only pouted.
"You can do much more then I could." Lucy tried but Jasmine just nodded at her, I guess she is picking up my mistrust more and more each day.
Like I told them with the chickens that day, I indeed had them help me set up the metal fencing around an area, it was much faster to be three to carry one instead of me dragging them along along, same with the fabric bags of concrete mix.
At least they do listen to me and do their best to prove they wanna live, I guess I could become more lenient? I don't know, it only has been three days.
I finished dumping the water in the concrete mix bucket which I poured over the cloth bags of wet concrete.
I had used them here to do a lot of advance on this project, even dragging down fencing on the river banks to put one there as it was just the right length to barely fit there to make even that part safe.
I scribbled in another line on my own map and sighed.
I almost was able to smile as my little cube of protect area where only the bridge was a liability too.
"Look here, we've done it." I held it to Adar and he looked at it.
"It looks so small compared to the other parts of the town." He said, handing it along to Jasmine.
"Yeah but still something, I was just able to do two walls before, the only threat now are extremely strong, drug doped, husks running them down, the sniffers that can jump them and the bridge that they walk across. The bridge is full of cars as obstacles so it will trap the few husks, we basically have a living space with no husk and outside my and your home."
"You know a lot about this town." Lucy said as she got the map to look at and handed it back soon after.
"I lived here and went to this school before the end of the world, I never left to explore the world, I hunkered down and survived here since the start." I said.
"Really?" She asked. "With Lexie we fled our home town when the husks pointed their ugly faces." Seems they picked up on the naming I had for them, she seemed sadder mentioning her friend but well I also took a while to get over my father and the two others... I hope you are alright up there in the clouds you all...
"And I had been on a school outing before we went into lock-down at the hotel when this all started and stuck together as a class for the first year." Adar said too.
"Well I was alone for at least a year here but I still didn't leave and I suppose that's why we are all alive today."
"Yeah I guess so." He smirked.
"Anyhow." I stretched, my back protesting, that's not good, I should put off any heavy lifting, I can't hurt my back more and risk any permanent injuries. "What did you even do before this? I was some oddball biologist student which led me know how to use microscopes to see that it was indeed some liquid transmitted virus thingy that fucked the world sideways. Anything else I learnt from others or alone while surviving." I sat on the ground as I watched Jasmine try to shoot the bow again, since none of us know how to shoot one it will be training and errors that will teach her how to get it down and it will take a while.
"I was working on a higher education astronomy, not really helpful in the apocalypse is it?" Adar said, having already been sitting on a curb. "I guess I did learn things while surviving too since well, I am still here."
"And you?" I asked Lucy.
"It's lame."
"Please, can't be lamer then my 'mouse trap for bird' trick I told you about."
"At least it still works from time to time, I was starting an apprenticeship as a tattoo artist, no use whatsoever, even your thing Adar could let you look up at the stars and basically be able to tell us if we were facing east, north or south."
"I was a biology student, not better either." I said. "Jasmine here knows how to fish, she can set up traps, I barely could figure it out with the help of a book with pictures of what to do. Don't look down so much on your skills, each of us remaining humans have something in common, the fight to survive."
"Yeah plus inks and stuff still exist, maybe we could do like in movies, some sort of team tattoo."
"You are so lame Adar." She told him with a grin. "Stick and pokes really? You can do that yourself."
I looked away as he started teasing her, looking through the bars and down the empty street, still feeling alone despite it all and I guess that would be a feeling all us humans would feel as long as we live, cursed to wander this earth like the husks.
I really wanted to feel better but couldn't, the old dread of people dying around me when I let them in coming back full force..
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