What had she been thinking, running away like that? She couldn't get the images out of her head. Those poor children, the glowing eyes.
She jolted awake, the rocking of the bus bashing her head against the large window. She had a headache now, but there was nothing she could do about it. Jack had been the one person she thought she could trust and she had run out without giving him a chance to help her. He knew most of all the danger they were in, but she had feared for his safety.
"Ma'am, the bus has stopped," a young man told her, not really wanting to interrupt her train of thought.
"Thank you." Sam slowly stood up, her legs cramped from the endless hours cramped in the seat. She had no clue where she was going, but she was going to start over. Go where no one knew her and no one could find her. Someplace she could just be a nobody.
"Um, just out of curiosity, where are we?" she asked the young man.
"Memphis, ma'am."
Good, a big city. She could melt in here just fine. No one would have to know a thing about her. Now she just had to come up with a new name. Something only Jack would know. She needed to become a nobody, but she wanted only Jack to be able to find her, ever.
She stepped off the bus and grabbed her back from underneath in the storage area. This was it, the beginning of her new life. Hopefully, Jack would find the note she had left him