Third person POV

The dirty trash filled street was completely deserted. There was absolutely no sign of any human just the remnants of them being there just recently with garbage left in heaps everywhere in the middle of the street, in yards, even in the fountain. Buildings had graffiti in all different colors spelling out "Death to Freaks" and "The Human Crew". It seemed a battle had just raged and this was the stillness that followed. Well, that was life in the FAYZ.

A lonely truck then pulled up to the curb in front of the biggest building in Perdido Beach which was the town hall. The truck had four people in the back two seemed to be injured and the other two were helping them. Many other kids got out of the truck also and all were heading for below the town hall.

They quickly rushed down there carrying the two injured and left the town like they had never been there. IT resumed its quiet with only its wind as its friend blowing the disgusting piles of debris across the sidewalks and roads telling nothing of its story.

Astrid POV

The truck finally rolled to a stop in front of town hall. The whole time I rode in the bed of the truck with Sam, Quinn, and Lana nobody talked and nobody moved. I couldn't take my eyes off of Sam he seemed so unnaturally still. With my hair blowing all around my face and tears wetted it I couldn't look much worse. The town could be compared much the same with trash absolutely everywhere and no one was insight. From the way that I left it I thought some crazy disaster would have started with everyone running around in chaos. But it wasn't like that just unnaturally silent like some ghost town.

I couldn't think about what had happened to Perdido Beach or anyone else right now because all that mattered was Sam. to make sure he made it. To make sure he lived.

Edilio quickly got out of the truck as everyone else piled out also and lowered the tailgate down. With everyone helping we slowly got Sam and Lana out of the back and carried them down the town hall stairs toward Dahra's "hospital". During this time Sam didn't even as much as twitch, he looked so bad. I don't know what I would do without him. Lana though seemed it better shape when they jostled her down from the truck she groaned slightly lightening up Quinn and surprisingly Edilio's faces not that I wasn't happy she was okay but my only concern right now is for Sam.

We carried them down the wide stone steps downward and seemed to get there before I even realized we had step foot out of the truck. Dahra was there with hunter and a few other kids who got banged up during the chaos that had ensued before I had found out about the real disaster happening in the mine shaft. I still wasn't positive about what happened down there but I could always ask questions later right now I needed to be there for Sam.

When she heard us stumble in she didn't really notice us. Probably just thought we were another group of little kids with a scrape.

"Just wait over there and I'll be there in a second," she said obviously occupied with whatever small cut a ten year old had gotten.

"Dahra...," Edilio said with this little thing that I couldn't quite name but it made Dahra instantly turn around to see why Edilio would be there.

"Oh Dear!" she exclaimed looking at Sam's ravaged body and then at Lana's pale face. If something could do that to the healer something had to be bad and if Sam was hurt it was a disaster. "What the heck happened?"

"I will answer your questions later but please help them now. It's urgent and I don't think Sam will make it without immediate help and I don't really know about Lana." Edilio explained in a calm but very serious voice that everyone listened to.

"Please Dahra Sam... He...he...almost..." I couldn't finish my sentence. IT was so hard to say that he had died. Sam had died even if it was only for a second or two but those few seconds felt like hours or even days to me. He needed to survive no matter what.

"Sam was gone for a few minutes but then Edilio and Astrid brought him back and then Lana collapsed and no one knows why," Quinn said surprising everyone because he is usually the one to freak out. "Please just help them."

"Oh well bring them in over here and lay them on these tables." Dahra said gesturing somewhere behind her. "I'll see what I can do."

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