We moved toward our first objective.

It's a 3-story building just two blocks from the wasteland. in our way, we kept the formation there weren’t too many places to hide so instead of moving without being seen we advanced fast.

In our way, I saw people peeking from some of the windows.

I get to the corner of the street in which the building was located. Without moving from the corner of the street I tried to focus on the houses around the building I’ve selected.

The house I selected wasn’t occupied, but most of the houses around had a sign that there are people living in them.

It was next to a collapsed building and I could see some cracks in the structure. I’m no architect or engineer but I will not take my chances in that building.

And I don’t like the idea of living near to other people in this situation.

Our next destination was farther into the city, not enough to be in the influence zone of the larger groups.

We walked for 5 more blocks and the scene didn’t change too much, the buildings just got bigger so de rubbles on the street were even more than before.

We arrived to a building on one of the main streets, we are not yet in the center of the city so most of the buildings in the area are for accommodation.

As we went into the city the number of people I noticed peeking declined.

I didn’t find people near and the building also looked good.

We went into the building

It had only 5 floors, and we took apartments on the fifth, each floor had 6 apartments.

We choose the side that gave us a better view of the street and picked two apartments next to each other.

The apartments had an electronic lock, so just pushing the door was enough to open it. It was an emergency measure to not lock inside the people in case of emergencies.

We checked all the apartments before going inside ours them. We couldn’t go inside some of them probably because of a second mechanical lock.

What we found in most of the other apartments were corpses, the smell was horrible. With G, we moved the corpses wrapped in blankets and left them in an apartment on the second floor that took a while.

Later there was a little fight about the apartments distributions. In the end, the girls are going to stay in one and me and G in the other.

Convincing Rose was quite difficult.

After doing all that I fell on the couch to rest. G was tired too but not as much as I was so he seated too.

“Are you sure you want to sit?”

Usually, he keeps moving even when he's tired.

“Yeah, from what you told me, the reason I have to keep moving it’s because I have a lot of energy right?”

“Yes”

“Well I used a lot today so I want to sit”

I noticed that indeed the light moving around him wasn’t as brilliant as usual and was a lot more static than before.

“You are right the light isn’t moving as usual”.

“Also lately it hasn’t been as painful when I stop moving”.

That reminded me of the training quest, maybe it’s involved.

“That’s good maybe it has to do with the training”.

“Now that you mention it started to get better after that!!”

“Then later before the sun hides we should train a little. In one of the apartment where some weight we can use, and for you to be in the sun we can go up in the roof, let the girls rest for today”.

Afterward, we talked a little before going to the roof.

It was weird and I felt like G had something else that wanted to talk about but didn’t do it.

We ate something, and rest for a while.

When we went to the roof the training start.

Since I was still hurt from my ear all I could do was a light training, without sparring.

I did an aerobic exercise and then started to lift some weights.

To be honest, I felt horrible after the day we had, but if we don’t train today I’m going to fail the quest.

I don’t know how good it is for me, but something tells me that for G it was going to be a nice improvement.

While we were about midway through the training Rose appeared.

Since she was just watching it means that there was nothing urgent so I finished the set and then had a break to rest and joined her. G came too

“Hey Rose”

“Hey, can I train with you?”

“”Uh??””

We both stared at Rose dumbfounded.

“Why do you want to train”

“In today’s fight I was useless, you and my brother fought directly with three guys, Hope was able to deflect a couple of bullets. And even if Hayley didn’t do anything either, when she is able to control her power I think she is going to be stronger than us, and now if I use my power I pass out!.”

As you expect her analysis was the same as mine, we need to find a way for her to at least be able to protect herself.

“I don’t think that learning how to fight in close quarters fits you very much. Besides G I don’t think anyone in our group has the characteristics of a frontline fighter”

“I know but I don’t want to be hiding behind a tree while I see how the people I love die, do you know how scared I was? When I heard the explosion and shots when you killed the goat? Or when I saw those guys shooting at you? Or when that other guy slipped pass G and went toward you?”

G interjected

“Hey!! That wasn’t my fault, I could have won but it was Spence’s plan”

Now that I think about probably looked like G was being overpowered, and the three guys were focusing me during the fight.

“I gave G the order to let him pass and to let him push toward us if G won he could become an easy target.”

“I know that!! But either way, besides G and Hope, neither I or Hayley was a part of your plan. I want to be useful to you next time, and I know that there is going to be a next time, I’m going to train with or without you”

She was about to begin exercise and a stopped her.

I sighed. I don’t have any good reason to stop her from doing this.

“Rose, I understand your feelings, I will let you train with us. But you know this as well as me, you are never going to be in the front fighting like G or me, your power whatever it is is not suited for that.”

She seemed unhappy with my words.

“If I train enough there will be a day that at least I’m not going to be a burden”.

“You are not a burden Rose, and you will never be, call it intuition but I think that your evolved power have a lot more possibilities than what we think”

Her eyes recovered some light after my words, but she still was not convinced G just was seeing us when he thought of something.

“Hey! You never mentioned the times I was in danger!!”.

Rose tilted her head and gave him a look like if he was stupid.

Critical hit.

“Get over it G, let’s continue we need a good night sleep to start a routine tomorrow”

Rose joined the training for the rest of the session, she was motivated.

It was a light training so rose didn’t have any issues with it, in my case I was tired and dizzy at the end.

G helped me go back to the apartment. We said our goodbye to Rose and went in.

“You shouldn’t have trained that much”

“I know but, I have to keep in shape”

He wasn’t convinced by my words and seemed troubled about something.

“Come on talk, what on your mind”

“So you noticed”

“It’s pretty obvious…is because I killed someone?”

“What? No, I saw that guy's eyes, he was like possessed by a beast or something, in my mind I’m even more sad about the goat…”

“Then what it is?”

He looked straight into my eyes

"You are hiding something from us ... right?"