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Chapter 19

She really did hope that the cameras we're frozen too.

Violet had stolen a back pack, along with a few clothes she also stole some scissors to help her cut the price tags of her clothes. She was also sure they might come in handle later on. One pair of sunglasses and swapped her sneakers for some hard leather boots seeing that they might be more useful than the shoes she was wearing. She also stole a fairly good sleeping bag seeing that a tent would be too much to carry.

Agent One had suggested that any old clothes they had are to go into a trash bin far away from the market. The last thing they wanted was the cops to track them down after the world had, unfroze and workers started to notice the none food stuff had gone missing.

Violet, Jerry and Agent One had taken whatever food was left. Meat was off the table since most of it had gone horribly off by now. So, they pack can food and bottle of water. She wanted to take some fruit, but noticed that too had gone horribly off. They pack a few bags of junk food and Violet pack some women things along with toothbrush and toothpaste. By the time they we're done their back packs we're full.

She watched Agent One take a pocket knife and a box of matches along with a few lighters before the three headed out the door, but paused when they saw Smith standing in the car park. The old woman looked around and the three duck away from the door.

"Now, what?" Violet asked. "Smith knows Muswellbrook better than any of us. It won't take her long to find us."

"There's another existed. Come on," One said.

It was so odd seeing the escalate frozen. A few people we're still on it too, some forever frozen as they looked down at their phones. Or had paused during their conversation. Little kids we're pointing at the glass on the side to the shops below as the three made their way down the escalate.

It felt even more odd just walking down them like steps. Violet found herself going back to old habits because the moment she stood on the first steeped she expected the escalate to get moving. It wasn't moving and Violet found herself uncomfortably walking down the escalates. The doors we're automatic and like everything else they too we're stuck, but the good thing was that the shops had been opened before the world froze and the other good thing was people, we're walking into the doors leaving the automatic door opened.

The three wandered into the underground parking taking a turn before Violet saw the nearest existed. Cars we're still on the road forever stuck as the three wandered around them. Agent One suggested that they burn their old clothes instead of throwing them out now because if Smith was so close behind it would just give her a clue on where they we're.

Which stuck for Violet because she really wanted to change into her new clothes since her old clothes had still be soaking wet from the river and we're now just drying like normal. There was no shower at the farm house and the Agents along with Jerry pretty much broke into the house across the street just to use their shower.

She prayed to any God that would listen that she won't get sick from this and wandered out the existed into the open warm sun, but even the sun was going down as it was starting to get late.

"How do we actually get out of here?" Violet asked. "I know nothing about Muswellbrook."

"I got a map from the shops..."

"It's Jerry time to shine," Jerry said with a grin. "I know the existed. Now, what way are we going?"

Jerry worked in Muswellbrook despite living in Newcastle her cousin worked at the coal mine and came here during the week if anyone knew Muswellbrook outside of Smith it would be Jerry.

"We need to get back to base. We're looking for portal guns and I'm the only one who knows where it is. I will tell Twenty-Five where they are the moment, we are out of Smith reach."