Sam:

Unlike the others, I could sleep because I have slept before. Sometimes I slept out of my cryo tube and walk around as everyone sleeps. The scanner on my pod is broken, so that makes sneaking around possible. That is why I volunteered myself for staying out because I knew even if the potato idea didn't work on my scanner, it would not be able to send information to the alarm system. Now that I think about it, I am technically eighteen now because of all my time out of the pods.

I woke up to see many drowsy faces packing up all the sleeping bags except for mine and haphazardly loading up to find different ways to carry their supplies to our next destination, the small city, with the least amount of discomfort. Eric, my best friend, helps me up and gives me a carry sack that the others had made while I was sleeping.

"Thanks," I say with a yawn. "Is everyone e-else ready to go?"

"We're waiting for Nick to finish packing and of course you, then yeah," Ben replies. "And also, how did you fall asleep so easily, none of us were able to."

"I-I don't know," I say. "Maybe I was just re-really tired and ready for an n-night's sleep."

An hour later, we are ready to go, the sun has not yet come over the hills, but it is bright enough to see fairly far. We hike up the same way we did yesterday to see the same sight we did last night, but something about this city gives me a feeling of unease, and as I've found, my gut usually tells the truth.

Upon reaching the top of the hill, I already knew that it will not be a fun journey, as the small town we saw yesterday, had had half of its houses burned to the ground with parts of it still glowing yellow. A cloud of smoke is drifting across the sky towards us obscuring some of the mountains on the other side of this wasteland.

"It looks like something bad happened in that town, man-made, should we even still go through it to get to the big city?" Ben asks. Or would that run too much of a risk?"

"I feel that we should still go through it," Eric gruffly replies. "We can handle."

"All-alright then guys, jus-just we should be careful," I say.

With the wind to our back, we start descending towards the city on fire, unknowing what would come our way.