Epilogue: United Kingdom
Tim held the small battery powered radio up to his ear. The static flashed with voices as he turned the dial.
...Infected... Thousands Dead...
He listened intently constantly trying to edge the frequency towards something more clear.
...Paris... Epidemic... Germanys border under attack...
Ellsy walked over to Tim.
"Foods nearly ready" She motioned towards Wolvo perched over their camp fire cooking something.
"Any good news" Ellsy said with an optimistic tone.
"When's the last time we had any good news?" Tim felt the harshness in his voice. Ellsy walked away without saying anything. Tim looked at her, almost wanting to apologise, but he didn't. He turned the dial again.
.. Lost control.. Military failures..
Tim thought back to the firebombing two weeks before. How could any infected have escaped, let alone made it over into Europe. He could pick up these bits and pieces from the radio. Something really bad was happening in mainland Europe. If that was true, every lick of land between France and the Pacific would be susceptible to infection.
...all blockades have failed... spreading like wildfire...
Tim thought then that perhaps England was now the safest place in the world. A dead country, waiting for the rest of the world to perish. Tim thought it could well only be the three of them left alive in Britain. He didn't know if that filled him with dread or a sense of safety.
...scenes like the evacuation of Dunkirk... thousands of boats...
Tim turned the radio off. Glorious isolation he thought. Wolvo and Ellsy were all he had left that was close to a family, and this dead husk of a country was all that he had left that he could call home.
Tim walked back to the camp fire, sitting next to Wolvo as he cooked his can of beans.
"Any joy out of the radio?" Wolvo questioned.
"I think we are now living in a new world, and it would seem Britain has been handed to us".
"So what do we do now?" Ellsy said with a hint of dismay.
"This used to be the United Kingdom, now it's neither of those things now. Perhaps we should work on that".
The three remained in silence for the rest of the night. Ellsy and Wolvo thought about what Tim had meant by his words before they fell to sleep. Tim simply watched the flames of the fire flicker and dance and finally die, all the while thinking and planning on what to do with this new world.