The Grandfather of the Reunion

Prologue 2-2

Getting personal

Starting first memory playback with: Memory from certain day

[After Hosea's hostage rescue objective, he received, finally, some good reception from the folks, especially the people he saved, and reunited with their loved ones. He got some shut eye at least, and his back was fixed, maybe his retinas were burnt from staring into the fire for too long, but a rest is a rest.]

[For now, while Hosea was listening to some rock and roll songs from his half-charged music player, AJ and Faust came to notify him of something.]

AJ: "Hosea... Hosea!"

*Hosea was oblivious to their presence. This led to Faust having to slightly kick his leg. Finally, Hosea acknowledged them.*

Hosea: *Removes one earbud.* "Hello, fellers. What do you need?"

Faust: "Quite ironic for an old man like you to be focused on old world tech."

Hosea: "You could listen to it if you want."

Faust: "Think I'll pass, but I'll consider it. We got a meeting, and AJ here thought you'd need to know."

AJ: "Just by the bus, some important figures are there."

Hosea: "And by that you mean?"

AJ: "Just...people who have leads on things."

Hosea: *Shrugs and complies.* "Alright, guess I do need to hear this."

[Hosea concedes and pockets his music player, pausing the music for now as he stands up, adjusted his denim jacket, and walks off with them. The camp wasn't lively, but people are attending to their chores, if you could even count it that.]

[It was functional at best, with no evidence of disarray. Cars ranging from vans, sedans, motorbikes are parked at the sides of the road. Hosea could see his gun truck, with the hull armour repaired by Fred and the others, with the rest of them.]

[They eventually made it to the insides of the bus, where Hosea discovered the insides refurnished and redesigned to be a headquarters. . The left side seats were removed, and there are some on the right side, but a few were rotated to make more space, and more comfortability. Because the seats were removed, it revealed a few rusted spots, evidence of the group trying to clean this shows due to wax spots. A utility board was substituted for the removed seats, it contains various weapons, ranging from pistols to rifles, no automatics though, and various tools needed for survival.]

[Beside the board is a huge map of New Seattle, detailed and possibly stolen from a library. There's also an interactive list beside the map too, it shows how much food rations they have, how much fuel they have, how much scrap they have, and ammunition. As well as the medicines, and their manpower. For now, they have the numbers of 36 it includes Hosea himself, Fred, Gordon, Adler, Judith, and Svetlana. The newcomers.]

[Sheriff Will leads the meeting, aided by Talulah. Their audience includes Frost, W, Mephisto, Crownslayer, a transvestite with no sense of fashion, Gordon, Fred, and two of Will's mechanics.]

Will: "Ah, Hosea, you finally came."

Hosea: "I didn't stall the meeting, didn't I?"

Mephisto: "Lucky you didn't."

AJ: "Could ya brief Hosea about the situation?"

Will: "Well as you can see by this chart we have, we wasted a lot of resources getting to New Seattle. Fuel, food, ammunition. Damn bandits. Yeah, we're pretty thirsty."

Crownslayer: *Looks at Frost in envy as she summons a snowball, and drinks it continuously.* "Literally."

Gordon: "That's cheap..."