Chapter 44
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On the morning of Wednesday June 22nd Zack drove Eve to the bus station. There the bus would pick up her and the other volunteers. Karen was at the house, Eve politely said goodbye. They had been friends once, but it was still awkward between them. Eve wanted to spend as much time with her dog as she could before she left. Nadia was also there at the station to say goodbye to her friend. Eve was nervous. she was 15, had never been away from her parents and home for more than a weekend. The army person in charge of the volunteers was a woman named captain Greer. Eve knew that the army was in charge of building the Arks. She expected some gruff and stoic army man. Captain Greer however was friendly, even cheerful. She seemed like a summer camp counselor, or at least the counselors that Eve had imagined. Perhaps captain Greer was the friendly person the army used to recruit people for this stuff. Greer told these volunteers, mostly teens, that it was almost time to go, they should say their final goodbyes. Eve checked her duffel bag again. Clothes, toothbrush and paste, snacks, a couple of sodas, some make-up, a Koran, and a little cash. And while Eve promised to try and quit she brough a pack of ciggarettes. Then she said her goodbye to Nadia, Cujo, and her father. Then she got onto the bus, and a new adventure.