Her words fluttered in my head as I lay in bed preparing to get some rest for tomorrow. It felt too surreal to even think about.

It sounded like some strange fantasy novel. However, I had to accept it. Eventually, my thoughts wandered off into dreams and I managed to get some sleep.

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The sound of a gunshot woke me up.

I couldn’t tell what time it was because of the endless darkness that seeped through the underground bunker.

I stumbled over to get to the light switch on and see what happened.

Before I could get to it, however, Ezra got there first and turned it on.

It seemed that Jack and Ezra were all awakened from the sound and the only person not here was the albino girl. The noise seemed to come from below us.

I opened the hatch on the floor and went down the staircase.

The first thing I saw was blood splattered on the wall which lead to the suspect of the noise.

It was the albino girl, she was dead.

The gun was in her left hand.

All I could do was stare at the body while Ezra and Jack came down. The room was filled with silence as we looked at her.

It seemed that I had gotten used to seeing corpses at this point.

I was tired of all of the death around me.

I felt like death had a grasp around all of our necks and was just waiting for the right moment to squeeze.

I wish I had tried to help her even if it was useless. At least if I did that I could say that I tried but, in reality,

I didn’t even know her name.

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After that tragedy, we all went upstairs and started packing food and weapons to get ready for our trip.

It seemed that Jack seeing her body had scared the desire to live back into him.

We all packed in silence not knowing what to say after seeing what had happened.

After we finished packing we splayed the map on the floor and looked at it.

When the albino girl was alive she seemed to have marked where other bunkers were on the map.

It seemed that for the first three days of travel we would be able to sleep in the safety of a bunker however, after that there weren’t any bunkers near the ark, and the last two days we would have to find a place in the forest to sleep without getting killed by the creatures.

We decided that we would leave early in the morning tomorrow.

I didn’t admit it to Ezra and jack, but I was terrified of going back out there. I remembered the monster eating Annabelle and the horror that was on Bruno’s face.

If I was being fully honest I was worried that Ezra or Jack could be one of those chameleon monsters however, I was able to rationalize that if they were they would have killed me much sooner.

Just the thought of those creatures made my stomach turn.

Once we finished with the map and our preparations we went and did our things in silence. I picked up the book I was reading earlier to try and distract my mind from its endless worry.

I didn’t want to think of the worst outcome because I know that if I did I would lose my will to live and the others didn’t need to have two bodies in the bunker.

I couldn’t help but pray that time would just stop and that we could stay here forever, never

having to step foot outside the safety of the bunker, however, food was running out and I don’t

know how long I could live in this bunker knowing about the body in the basement.

Eventually, my eyes grew heavy and I knew it was time to rest. Ezra and Jack had already fallen asleep.

Ezra seemed to fall asleep the easiest however we had to give Jack some sleeping pills that we had found in the basement.

Unfortunately, there weren’t any left for me.

I set the book down as slowly as I could, trying to make this moment last for as long as it could.

I gently laid down on the bed and tried to close my eyes but, my heart was beating as fast as it could. I could barely contain my fear and anxiety for tomorrow.

I held onto the pillow tightly to prevent me from attempting to run away from reality with a bullet to my cranium. The body of the albino girl was plastered to my thoughts as I tried to sleep.

I felt that at this moment I understood the meaning of crying myself to sleep.

Tears gently fell from my face as I felt my worries fall with them. With a feeling of relief from my pain, I managed to fall asleep before my fears came back.

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When my eyes opened I was in a place that I had been once before that I never wanted to see again. The familiar blood-red sky and dead trees seemed to go on forever.

The difference this time was Ezra and Jack were here.

I also noticed that the strange red symbols were on the floor again surrounding us.

The sound of thousands of crows gawking came closer and closer until a murder of crows large enough to cover the blood-red sky were above us.

Eventually, I saw a man walking towards me.

His lazy eye and face of a crow were something that I had never wanted to see again.

Unfavorable memories started flowing back to me as he walked closer.

Eventually, he made it to us. I was waiting for him to repeat what happened last time. He opened his beak and I noticed something different.

He had no teeth.

“Hello, we meet again” He spoke.