❛ SURVIVOR'S HEART ! ❜ chapter sixteen ―― air on fire
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ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ "WHY'S THE AIR OFF?"Carol asked as she and a few others stuck their heads out of their rooms, all confused. "And the lights in the room?"
"Hey, what's going on?" Daryl asked, hanging out his room and Jenner took the bottle of whisky from him. "Why's everything turned off?" Jenner didn't answer, he just continued down the hall.
"Hey, doc!" Charlie shouted as she followed him once he passed hers and Mason's room. "What the hell is going on?"
"Energy use is being prioritized." He answered before bringing the bottle to his lips.
"Air isn't a priority?" Dale asked. "And lights?"
"It's not up to me." He replied as the lights in the hall went out, everyone following behind him. "Zone 5 is shutting itself down."
"Hey!" Daryl called after him, pushing his way forward past Charlie and Mason. "Hey, what the hell does that mean?" He didn't answer. "Hey, man, I'm talking to you. What do you mean it's shutting itself down? How can a building do anything?"
"You'd be surprised." He told him, leading them down a set of stairs in the big circle room.
"Rick?" Lori leaned over the railing of the catwalk to see her husband, Shane, Glenn and T-Dog on the floor below while the others followed the doctor. Charlie placed her hand on Daryl's shoulder as Mason looped his arm around her back to help her down the stairs. Daryl didn't even look back, he knew it was her.
"Jenner, what's happening?" Rick asked the doctor.
"You better start explaining or I'm gonna start kicking some ass." Charlie called out.
"You can barely walk, princess." Daryl mused as he stepped off the last step and turned towards her as she hoped down on her good leg, landing in front of him.
"Don't underestimate me." She told him before she turned and limped away, the pain had lessened and it was manageable but it still hurt.
"The system is dropping all the nonessential uses of power." Jenner told them "It's designed to keep the computers running to the last possible second. That started as we approached the half-hour mark. Right on schedule." He pointed towards the clock that read 31:28 . . . and dropping. He took another sip from the bottle then held out to Daryl who snatched it back, but he kept his eyes on the doctor, as did everyone else. Jenner looked over his shoulder, his eyes on Andrea for a second. "It was the French."
