Warning and Disclaimer are in chapter 1.
XXVII, V, XVIII ((27, 5, 18))
Today was a good day. Why?
We found Francis.
He was in one of the pits that surrounded the town he got lost in. Both his legs are broken and he's bruised all over, but he'll live. Ludwig helped to stabilize his legs and get casts on them and all that. We found some morphine so he's out of it right now, the stuff makes him a bit off… maybe we used too much, I don't know, none of us are really trained in this. Only ones who have any training are Ludwig and Kiku. Francis' flirting is terrible when he's on morphine apparently though, he's all like "You have gorgeous hair, they match your eyes." My eyes are red and my hair is whitish grey, where does he get the idea that my hair matches my eyes? Or maybe he was talking to Kiku. I actually have no idea.
Finding him has lifted everyone's mood a bit though, and we've all decided that we're going to do something big when Francis can walk again.
We're going to break out of the country.
We've all heard some of the stories about WWIII and the Drones War (I even remember bits of the Drones War) and if you go off that then there's probably not much left out there, since WWIII took out quite a bit of land, or at least made a lot of it unusable and the Drones War was like a scorching fire that made it's way through forests and cities.. I think that the forests might have had some chance at starting a new though, since it's been a little over 18 years since the end of the Drones War.
But living in a bare land and finding our own means of survival seems like a better idea than living under a tyrant with drones. I'd rather grow my own food than live off the rations they give us when I know the "King" is having a banquet every night and incinerating the left overs.