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"We have eight days until we meet up with Spokane," Esosa thought aloud, as Rima struggled with her work. "Hopefully, the CDC will come before then." Rima glared at the crock pot bottom, frustrated. She'd just spent two hours trying to make it work the way she wanted, but to no avail. "We...

The strangers were leaving. Esosa ran to the edge of the second floor, only to see their backs exit the house. The Lairds looked at each other. Andrew sighed. "It's too far." Maya grabbed the radio. "We're in southern Georgia. If the Spokane community, or anyone else, wants to speak or...

@Wickedkent Maya jumped, as the radio started transmitting a message. "Um... mum? Dad? You should hear this." Andrew and Esosa turned, alarmed. "What is it?" asked Esosa. "There's someone else not he radio. Some sort of greeting message." Maya listened closely. "Eastern Washington, I...

Maya had been carrying the hand-cranked radio, in a small bag, for the past few days. She heard a blip. While listening to her parents talk to the men below, Maya took the radio out of the small bag she kept it in, ignoring Rima's incredulous look. She younger girl looked at the radio...

Andrew and Esosa paused, not really sure what to say. He looked to his wife, but she shrugged. He was the more charismatic of the two, and she had even less of an idea of what to do, than he did. "Some gentlemen from the CDC came by earlier," said Andrew, trying not to give away too much...

Esosa and Andrew looked at each other. "So... not from the CDC, huh?" said Esosa. They whispered to each other for a few moments. "We'd be happy to do trade, if that's what you're here for," said Andrew, diplomatically. "We can exchange lists of things we wish to trade, and things we want...

Maya and Rima were out of sight, to anyone on the first floor. Andrew and Esosa stood, wondering why the CDC was returning, ready to respond to something hostile. "Why'd you come back?" asked Andrew, in a light tone. "Did you forget something?"

The Laird family creeped towards the stairs. Andrew looked at Rima, the fastest climber in the group. She picked up the ladder and put it in place, turned to her family, and gave them a nod. Then she was off, speeding down the ladder, running to the door, unlocking it, speeding back up, and...

@Wickedkent Andrew looked at the humvee bridge with Rima. It was big enough for the distance between two close houses, but not even close to half of what they'd need to reach the other side of the street. Still, the engineering fascinated Rima, who was already thinking about how to apply it to...

"What use would the guns be?" asked Esosa quietly. "If we ever use them, they'll just attract more Zeds than they kill. They're a bad idea." "A good thing to have, just in case." "It would be better to learn to use them another time, when these guys can stay longer." "Mom, dad, could I go...

"You misunderstand," said Rima. "The bridge isn't to connect other houses on the block - it's to go across the street, connecting this block with that one. We could get more space - we could make a little hotel, for people passing by! Getting supplies from Home Depot would be great - we've...

"Materials to build a small bridge," Rima blurted out, immediately. "We want to build a bridge from the top of this roof to one across the street. We have some wood and bolts, which we'll give to the effort, but not enough to make it on our own. We could use some expertise too, since it sounds...

Rima took the pen and clipboard. "Does mom know how to fire a gun?" asked Maya quietly. "They never said they'd definitely give us one, or ammo, but..." "No. Just how to use those two swords. If we get enough ammo, she and dad could practice, but that would draw more zombies than it would...

Rima glanced at her sister nervously, then knelt down and reached for the sheet. It was barely within reach, and she had to stretch her arm to get it. The sisters read through it, glancing at the man every few lines, to make sure he wasn't up to anything. Then they looked at each other. They...

The four Lairds looked at each other. The daughters, especially Rima, were a bit scared - burning the block down? The adults were annoyed about how their daughters had just been talked to - while they were pleading for their lives and apologizing! - but were also a bit scared and quite a bit...

Rima raced up the stairs to the roof. She smashed into her mother at the top. The rest of the family was behind her. "What... what do we do?" asked Rima fearfully. She was the master when it came to the geography of the neighborhood. But not when it came to people. She took a deep breath...

Andrew, Maya and Esosa stood two roofs away from the unlocked house, ready to help Rima and go downstairs to hide from bullets, or come across to greet the new people. Rima was going in. The girl wasn't the fastest person in the group - that was Esosa - but she was by far the most nimble, and...

All four members of the Laird family ran to the edge of the roof they were weeding on. They heard distant music. The Zeds were walking away. That was a relief, but who was playing the music? Andrew and Esosa had been glad, but a little suspicious, when their daughters spent the day together to...

Rima had to pee in the middle of the night. The toilets didn't work, but the buckets the family used were still kept in bathrooms. When she came out, she could hear Maya. She was in her room, talking to herself, sounding like she was about to cry. Rima gently opened the door to Maya's room...

Maya and Andrew sat on the bikes together, pumping electricity. It was Esosa's turn, but when asked, she'd been happy to give it up, to go read a book she'd found recently. The father and daughter had come to the bikes separately, but they had the same reasons - pride and boredom. They were...