Isaac's House

Glad I managed to hold up with Isaac, its good to know that he wasn't with his family when the outbreak happened, as fucked up as that sounds. We're at his house now, it's solar powered, so unless its really late at night, everything works fine. But that time between when the solar lights finally fizzle out, and the dawn breaks, is...I'm not even sure how to explain it. I'd say it's like a nightmare, but it's too real to even call it that.

Winter is coming, and the air gets bitter at night, and its almost like everything gets sharper. The air gets sharper to inhale, more painful, my vision tries to focus on all the things I'm seeing, trying to pick out what is danger and what isn't. It's not even just zeds out here, but pre-outbreak animals too. My ears pick up every single noise, even if I can tell it's not something outside, just someone rolling over, and so I spend most nights on the roof, watching, versus snapping awake every time I hear a cricket chirp. Theres a lot of that out here. What with the world dying supposedly, you think at least a few of the animals would get it. But the crickets keep chirping, song birds sing, and coyotes howl. I've actually found that comforting, knowing that theres a family of coyotes, things that don't even have thumbs or all these "beneficial" things humans have, and they're doing just fine without a safehouse.

I try to wind down with TV, but a lot of networks are slowly crackling out, and I find myself looking at that vast national forest a lot. I was never all that much of the explorer when I was really little, but for some reason, now that it's deadly, my conscious keeps slowly wandering out the door, and exploring the forest that surrounds this house. Isaac says he wants to start mapping populations of zeds. I'm not sure how fast they move, it seems to me like that'd be pointless what with them having legs and a mind for random wandering, but I'm going with him nonetheless. It's time to see what the world I missed was all about, now that it's slowly dying.