The sun no longer sat in blue skies, no longer with white cotton clouds lazily drifting by. Instead the skies are grey, filled with darkened clouds and a small white sun that rarely peeks through. The days are cold, the nights worse, dropping as low as -15F on average. Building toppled over, rubble littered through the streets barren and devoid of life. Devastation is all there is anymore.
People had began calling it World War III though after the fact it became know as the Dead War. Everyone was fighting, allies turned to enemies and men turned to monsters. The human race reduced to their most basic instincts. People were rioting and others bunkering down, the war was relatively short compared to the past, lasting only eight months before a stop. Oceans were bombed causing tsunamis, rockets that painted the skies black and blocked out the sun, followed by missiles that polluted the air with sickness. Few survived the attacks and those who did soon succumb to the sickness in the air. It had been said before human extinction would most likely not come from the skies in the form of dying sun or little green men but instead by anthropogenic* causes, The Dead War only furthering that statement.
At the time Sebastian was a college student. He had a nice life, never complained, excelled in anything he did, not bad with the ladies, overall he was happy. When the war began everything fell, of course that was to be expected. He and his family bunkered down with a few others near by for the duration of the war, after the attacks ended they waited a month before moving out and surveying the damage.
Sickness took his family and the others that they traveled with left him without a word. Surviving alone was no easy matter, decisions had to be made. At first he stayed within the bunker—hopeless, and without direction. The radio barely worked at this time fading in and out of focus, but when information could be gleaned it was important. One day as he listened the fuzz cleared, there was a a refugee center working on cures and such in need of anyone that could come to help. That was all he needed to hear, Sebastian packed what he had then went on his way, in hopes for better.
*Anthropogenic- By human cause