The Night

At peace

      I was half awake with my eyes closed and it felt like a cheery morning. I sensed someone hovering above me and guessed it was Arya trying to scare me, I reached in front of me and shook whatever was there, "Y'aint gonna get me this time," I grinned opening my eyes seeing Arya stumbling back laughing, surprised I knew she was there.
       Paul was still lying in bed, bandaged up and sleeping with Alicia taking care of him, grinning at Arya. She looked serene and calm, relaxing after all of the excitement yesterday.
        We sat in peace for an hour or two, completing our daily chores and sorting equipment out, doing stuff like cleaning dirty clothing, tidying up debris and junk and sharpening our weapons in case of an attack before I came to a sudden thought, "Hey, how many different group are there out in the wide world do y'think? How many in our area? What if there are great groups of people like us who need help? Maybe we should venture and look for survivors and build up a small village to improve our chances against those Reavers?"
        "That ain't such a bad idea You know? Maybe there are people out there..."  Alicia commented,"What do you think Arya? When Paul gets better we can search for survivors and lend them a hand, yeah?"
       I went to my bed area and began checking out all my items. I saw that grappel thing I made before I left when I was fiddling around earlier, it had been a while since I was calm enough to just sit down and look at all my equipment.
        "You have any spare parts you two, I wanna make whatever I can," and sat down fiddling with a screw or three, malluable metal strip here and so forth. I was brainstorming ideas when a thought hit me - I left my radio at the shop. Damn. Something important could have been broadcasted on radio's, the only form of communication we had now were some old two way walky talkies that could only be used to talk to the others.
        A lot of mashing and screwing later, Arya came over to see what I was doing," A modern day Thomas Eddison are we? Whatcha making?" She asked, I replied with a non-committal shrug. When I was building I never really concentrated but let my subconscious make some fantastic pile of junk. By the end of the day, as the agreed dinnertime came I had nothing more than a block of rectangular light metal, I decided it resembled a shield and would later add a handle. How many building roofs had I taken parts from to make this? I wondered what material it was made from as I headed to the table.
        I was hit by a luscious scent and saw Alicia holding a big bowl and put it down," Lucky you!" She said to no-one in particular,"Found some nice herbs out and a bag of rice," and she revealed that there was a delicious looking steamy hot seasoned pile of rice within the bowl.
        I saw Paul was up and ready and he saw me, holding my new creation. "Thanks a tonne for saving me yesterday!... Eh? What's that you got there mate?"
        "A shield I made, it'll be useful for keeping em creeps off of us," I replied, proudly. We all ate Alicia's exquisite meal whilst discussing our ideas about rescuing others and whatnot.
       We came to an agreement that tomorrow we abandon base and split in two teams. Me and Arya were team A and Paul and Alicia were team B. We each were going to have one walkie talkie and would go searching for survivors and bring them back to our hideout. We had enough supplies to go round, so we would put them to good use. After all, we were good people, weren't we?
           We would regroup at eleven o' clock before nightfall so we had optimum searching time and an hour to get to safety. After the strategy was formed, Arya got up and exclaimed," Argh. I'm knackered, night night," And  after we all drifted away to our beds full of excitement.
         I made sure to get up early and prep everything. I finished before I expected so decided to play a little prank. I crouched down, hovered above Arya and whispered, "Boo..." She jolted up and gave a small high pitched scream, before looking around then we both began laughing our heads off. "Well, morning Arya. Ready? We got a job to do, and hell we're gonna do it well," I encouraged grabbing my backpack but leaving my shield behind because it wasn't finished, and leaving out with her. Paul and Alicia had already left, and we looked out to the beautiful sunrise and glisten.
       We had a long day ahead of us, time to start, I thought before we drifted off into the sun, we'd better savour every moment we had out here. Never knew how long this would last...