Nature Reclaimed

Prologue

I woke up in the desolate cabin, located in an overgrown forest on the western coast.
My first breath of the day filled my lungs, crisp and clean.
The sound of rushing water, and the cacophony of birds chirping filled my ears with a sweet song full of promise and hope for the day.

My name... Lewis.
I don't remember the before times, but I've heard they were horrible, terrible, wretched days. When billions of men and women lived on our Earth and consumed resources faster than they could be produced.

To save mankind, our leaders and greatest scientists made a plan, to rid the world of...
'Undesirables' who consumed more than they could produce. In three years of bloody conflict, the bombs dropped to end it all, silencing the last of the undesirables who had taken arms to fight.

Fifty years later, the world is a much better place, small communities dot the continent of America, and throughout the entire world, a hundred million souls dwell.
I am one of them, and this is my story.