That same morning, Alicia is painting just as there is a knock on the door. She then sets her painting materials don and answers the door to find Rachel.
Rachel: Hi....you're the one who cut Kyle's hair, right?
Moses is sitting a the porch before Kale walks up to him, carrying a bowl of cooked eggs and bacon.
Kale: Sorry I'm late. How is it that you called this very early morning meeting and yet still I'm the one bringing you breakfast?
Kale hands Moses the bowl of breakfast, before sitting down.
Moses: You're a nice guy.
Kale: Evidence seems to point to that direction, son.
Moses smiles.
Kale: So, what's up?
Moses: Can we start meeting in the mornings?
Kale: So I can bring you cooked eggs and bacon and ask you why we're meeting so early?
Moses: Not necessarily....so you can show me how to build things.
Kale raises his head, intrigued.
Kale: You want to be an architect, son?
Moses: There are families within these walls....good people....and I have a girlfriend, so I want to make sure these walls stay up.
Kale: You think they could fall?
Moses: I think they could get pretty banged in by whatever or whoever wants this place....could be years from now or when I'm your age.
Kale chuckles.
Kale: Hey, watch it. I'll still be around when I'm your age, young man.
Moses: Well, I don't think it would hurt to know what you know. Pass it down onto the next generation. For the walls, the houses....new buildings. The people. Maybe one day I'll ask Rachel to marry me. Start a family of our own one day.
Kale: So you're in this for the long haul, huh?
Moses: Yes...I am.
Kale: Interesting....interesting, indeed. It's good to see young men your age wanting to do something positive, especially in this apocalypse.
Kale sets his bowl down and pulls out a notebook, writing down something.
Moses: What's that?
Kale: These are my chronicles.
Moses raises an eyebrow.
Kale: I chronicle everything that's happened in this apocalypse. Someone has to.
Moses looks down at the notebook, interested, before Kale takes out the pages he's written and then hands Moses the notebook.
Kale: Now, you should write everything down.
Moses: Really?
Kale: Mmm-hmm.
Moses takes the notebook.
Moses: Thank you, sir.....Why?
Kale: Well, hell, you said it yourself. The next generation will want to remember this community. The people. And you have a girlfriend now so say you and that girlfriend decide years from now to get serious and start a family. Your children will want to read how you helped this place rise from the ground up. Their children's children.
Moses nods in understanding.
Moses: Just so you know, Kale. I'm not in any rush to become a teenage dad. I'm only sixteen.
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Chronicles of the Apocalypse: Across the Ruins (2024)
ActionSet months after their losses both of homes and loved ones, Kyle and what remains of his group must travel across the wasteland in a brutal and bloody journey to find a new home. R for Strong Bloody Post-Apocalyptic Violence, Disturbing Images, Per...
