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Grace loved her home long before they bought it. Her home included 65 acres of mostly woods, and Grace was so glad to be back in the country and to be back in her grandparents’ home, where she had grown up for almost all her childhood. Grace had memories from her childhood in this place. The knocks on her bedroom window late at night. The gifts left on the front steps for her whenever she stayed with her grandparents. Not once did she ever know who it was that had left her those gifts, but now, she knows that it was never a who but a what, and that should terrify her, but doesn’t.

China created and released a deadly virus on the world. For a couple of years, that was all the media reported on: how many people were dying, how many countries were suffering because of it... and then a vaccine was created to fight it, and so many refused it until the very end, when it was too late to accept it. One virus after another came trailing through every household. Then it happened. Our grid shutdown. It was sudden, and it was permanent. Now, no one cares to take a life. Law no longer exists. We must look for food, for safety, for water, and for peace.