December 10th, 2020

Jack's POV

"We want to leave!" Shouts somebody from the crowd.

"Yeah! Let us leave!" Someone else shouts. In the past 3 days, 4 people have died. People have started to get scared to the point where they want to take their chances outside the walls. Out of the 40 people we have here, 20 want to leave. Its sad.

"Let us go now!" I hear a women shout

"You guys don't to go out there. You won't survive." I say.

"We rather take our chances out there than in here! Let us go!" a man shouts. Everyone starts shouting and even a shot was fired at me. All of a sudden there were 3 shots and everyone looked around. It was my mom.

"Okay listen everyone. I know times have gotten tough in here, but if you want to survive, you would stay here. You don't know how bad it is out there, and how bad it has gotten since we've been out there. But if you really want to go, You will leave now. Jack, open the gates." Mom says. I open the gates and everyone takes one last look at the town before trning and going away.

"Mom… They won't survive out there with the little ammunition they have." I say

"I didn't want them to raid my barter shop or else I would have told them. Its want they wanted, Jack. And who knows? Maybe its okay out there."

"Mom you know its not."

"I'm sorry Jack, it had to be done." She says and walks away. That is that I guess.

Mary's POV

I know I shouldn't have let them go, but I knew if I didn't someone would get hurt… And not to be selfish, but it gives of less supplies to ration and less people to deal with. The assassin could still be here, or out there killing those poor people… But I can't worry about that now… I get everyone together to see how many people are left. 5 citizens and 15 guards left.. This will be better. I go back to the store with my new guard, who knows nothing about bartering. I work all day, and nothing happens. I go home and see that my husband is sleeping but Dawson and Jack are still awake. I go to bed.

December 11th, 2020

Mary's POV

I wake up in the morning. I go downstairs to eat breakfast. John, Dawson, and Jack are already there, John and Dawson just finished eating. They went outside to guard.

"Mom, did we do the right thing yesterday?" Jack asks me.

"It can go both ways Jack. On one side of it, we have that they wanted to leave and we let them. The other side is that they probably won't survive…" I say.

"Alright Mom. Have a nice breakfast." Jack says and I say that i'll see him later. I start eating breakfast and I hear the door opening and John walks in

"Hi Hunny-" I begin but he interrupts me.

"Your dad is dead. The Assassin got the 4 guards that were on the wall last night"