It was well past noon when I emerged from my room and walked to One where all the adults were nicely packed into the small booths given to us by the train. They ate the little rations they got for the day. I was glad everyone was complying to the rules and not stuffing themselves with newfound food. I strolled up to the front for One and looked around. Everywhere, faced were either staring at me or eating the tiny portion of food.

I cleared my throat, "Good morning everyone."

"Good morning." they all replied

"I would like to thank you for not eating your weight in our food and complying with the sign.

"Where did you get the paper?" asked Rena.

"Doctor Alec and I raided a Michaels before him and Jamie got married." I told her, "Would you like me to give you some?"

"Yes please, it's been a while, but I was a great artist."

"Oh, then I'll see to it that a couple pieces of paper and utensils are on your bed before nightfall." I told her, "But, now, everybody. I would like to discuss what's going to happen tomorrow. Tomorrow, we stop into a small city with, say, roughly 12,000 people once known as the local population. There was rumors of a Costco that was secured but they fell, a once great survivor group."

"How do you know all this?" asked Nate.

"We have a radio up in the cockpit with Dean, I was talking to a child in the Costco a couple of minutes before they got crushed.

"What happened to them?" asked Naomi curiously.

"Sadly, one person took their eyes off a child for one second and the wine bottles came crashing down. Walkers tried to get in and bit one person, turned him into one of them and he terrorized the group with ten other walkers. The other defensed held but, if we get inside, we have to deal with 30 walkers as quietly as we can."

"That's terrible. How about the little girl?"

"I think she's still alive, I have not heard from her, but she said she was hiding on the highest shelf she could find. She hasn't radioed me because I told her to keep quiet. Can we do this? Get this girl and have one hell of a raid?"

"I'm in."

"Me too."

"Yeah, lets save this girl and get some food!" Everyone cheered.

"Alright, we will pull into the station tomorrow. I would appreciate if you guys would go to Two before the raid to pick out something lightweight, easy to move in, and has lots of pockets. But, for now, have a free day today."
"Miss?" asked Damen.

"Yes Damen?"

"Will we ever see the leader of all this?"

"All this?"

"Yeah, the train, the beds, the schedules. Will we ever meet the genius who saved us all?"

"You've already met the leader," spoke up Alec, as he walked in from Two holding a cup of coffee from the doccart.

"We have?" they all asked.

"Yep," he took a sip of his coffee, "Right there." he pointed towards me with his mug.

"What?" cried out Henry

"She's just a child!" said Kyle

"No," Jamie said, appearing from behind Alec, "she's a savior. She saved Alec and I, she scouted the Botswana when she first found it, she helped with all the raids, she led us away from a walker horde, she's amazing."

"And she's immune." added Alec.

"You're immune from the bites? How?" asked Jackie.

"A long and painful process that no one is repeating. It's too dangerous now." I said.

"You wanna know why Dean put you in Eleven Elsa?" Alec asked me, "Because he knew that, if we ever found survivors, you would want them to stay and so they needed the leader somewhere where they can run to her. He told me that himself. You're a leader Elsa, smart, fast, and very organized.". I stood a little taller. I had to lead these people to a safer place, a place where we could stay away from walkers, not put the little ones in danger, and live out our lives.