How The Mighty Have Fallen

"Oh how the mighty have fallen, hey Laura?"
"How do we even begin to put our lives back together? How are we meant to continue after this?" Laura asked softly. Nick didn't reply. A blanket of silence enveloped the battered twins. Neither had the answers.

After surviving first the disaster and then the collapse then the invasion then the war, the hero, battered and scarred but alive, stands victorious. End of story, right? They won, it's over, and all was well and they lived happily ever after, right? Usually, yes. This is the story of after. The story of what happens after the last battle of the last war is done and won, and the war torn society limps back together, only to ask what happens next. Pulling the pieces back together is not as straight forward as fighting the fight and winning the war.
This is the story you are rarely told of how to piece together a shattered society in the aftermath of the armageddon of disasters. Instead of putting the torn and tattered puzzle of life back together, this is the story of remaking the puzzle into a new picture.