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Our house was stacked floor to ceiling with every book he could find after the 3rd Wave took out more than 3.5 billion people. First thing I look for when I hit a grocery store? Sardines.īooks? They’re heavy and take up room in my already bulging backpack. Now I’ve developed a real taste for them. Sleeping bag, first aid kit, five bottles of water, three boxes of Slim Jims, and some tins of sardines. Just the essentials, with the Luger, the M16, the ammo, and my trusty bowie knife topping the list. This tent has been my home for a long time, but it’s too bulky and I need to travel light. I’m guessing a lot more of the same: abandoned towns reeking of sewage and rotting corpses, burned-out shells of houses, feral dogs and cats, pileups that stretch for miles on the highway. I have no clue what’s out there beyond these woods and the two-mile stretch of interstate I hike every week to forage for supplies.
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I lived in the same house for sixteen years and I can’t tell you exactly what my backyard looked like, but I can describe in detail every leaf and twig in this stretch of forest. I know every path, every tree, every vine and bush. These woods have been home for a long time. Honestly, even though it’s suicide to stay here and I have a promise to keep, I don’t want to leave. Okay, that’s not someplace you want to go, Cassie. Maybe the last one to die will be killed by the last one alive. Maybe the last human being on Earth won’t die of starvation or exposure or as a meal for wild animals. Maybe that will be the 5th Wave, attacking us from the inside, turning our own minds into weapons. Another way the Others mess with your head: the uncertain circumstances of your certain destruction.