"Shut up." She's settling too, clearing her throat. Thinking; surely she's not supposed to start with 'once upon a time', right? It's occurring to her that he's going to be the first person to ever hear about this.
"Have you ever visited a place you can tell nobody has set foot in for years? Back home, I had to go to an old hospital for supplies. There was a huge one in the middle of the city I lived in, and three of the lower levels had been boarded up for decades. I think I was probably the first person to walk down there since the day of the outbreak."
Yeah, this is going well. She's building tension, right? "They called it ground zero. The first cases of infection in Seattle happened in the bottom of that hospital, and they never left. They were still down there when I broke in to search. Still alive. Still growing."
She shoots a glance his way, gauging the mood. If only the lights were off and she had a torch to hold under her chin.
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"Have you ever visited a place you can tell nobody has set foot in for years? Back home, I had to go to an old hospital for supplies. There was a huge one in the middle of the city I lived in, and three of the lower levels had been boarded up for decades. I think I was probably the first person to walk down there since the day of the outbreak."
Yeah, this is going well. She's building tension, right? "They called it ground zero. The first cases of infection in Seattle happened in the bottom of that hospital, and they never left. They were still down there when I broke in to search. Still alive. Still growing."
She shoots a glance his way, gauging the mood. If only the lights were off and she had a torch to hold under her chin.