Alone. -Introduction.

Some Time in Winter.

I'm standing here in the remains of what used to be our village, but of course it isn't our village anymore it's just mine, I'm all alone now you see, I have no-one. It's my birthday by the way, well at least I think it is, see now that everything has been destroyed I lose track of time a lot. I forget everything anyway nowadays, my mothers voice and my fathers smile are just a distant memory now . I look around and see nothing but darkness and the ruins of the local cathedrals and supermarkets and think to myself. Why?. Why was I the only one to survive this tragedy?

I closed my eyes and kept telling myself it was all a horrible nightmare and that anytime now someone would come, but it never happened.No-one came, not yesterday,not today,not tomorrow, not ever. It looked to me like the afternoon although you couldn't really tell as everyday looked the same.. Dark.And my stomach started grumbling so I grabbed my pen knife, rope, and canteen and headed down to the forest area where I used to go and walk the dog with our father, at least I think it was that forest, I'm not quite sure but that's understandable I guess considering how dark it always was. I walked over to my trap that I made with a few old wires rope,metals and any other piece of junk I could find hoping that I'd catch some sort of animal that I could kill and eat, but no, there was nothing. So instead I grabbed my pen knife and carved a piece of bark of one of the very few trees there were remaining, ripped of some old leafs and headed back to camp ( it wasn't really much of a camp it was more of a clear area wear I lay old rags down to sleep on). On my way back I found a small puddle to fill up my canteen,but actually my canteen was only filled a quarter of the way to the top..