Loneliness was Valerie’s armor now. She’d only need to mend her own wounds from here on out. The team that had carried her dead weight over a hundred miles before, were nearly all dead themselves.

“Do you all live in the same building? How does this work when we get into the city?” Valerie asked in order to distract herself from the deep seeded guilt threatening to swallow her into a black hole of paralysis.

“We all park around the same block then walk home fro...