From the journal of Jenna Bless, May 9

May 9, 2017

I am so excited! Williams and Gary found a group of young people, closer to my age! I have been wishing for some people around my age. All the people here are a lot younger or a lot older and I miss talking to people who understand where I am coming from. Movies, books, shows. No one understands my references and I miss that. I am really hoping they are cool.
Henry is starting to get better. He turned a corner and he is going to live, which is weird because no one has ever heard of someone surviving a bite. Doctor Ben says if we can find a compound to make secure, then he can try to set up a lab and study Henry's blood. Maybe even find a cure, or at least something that can save someone who is bit. Like a flu shot or something. But Henry is still not quite ready to move, so we have to stick around here for another day or so.

The kids don't mind. They have built themselves a playhouse like no other from the play sets in all the back yards. We had cleared some houses and then took our their fences between the back yards and it gave them lots of room. I even played games with them where the play structures were castles and we were friends sometimes and enemies at others.
We have plenty of books. That's one thing about rich peoples houses, they have books and toys and stuff like that. I had to borrow books from the library and I didn't get to keep them, not even my favorite ones. These kids don't know how lucky they are to get to have them. We even made space in the back of the truck to bring all of them with us when we head to Aspen.

I think we have enough stuff to fit out a place for us in Aspen. We found a construction site and it has a flat bed trailer of wall sections. Daniel was a commercial truck driver and would have no problem taking them with us. We can totally make a kick ass wall around any place, or make a wall already there even better. There are other materials that we can take too. Plus, this really large truck that can pull a trailer with those supplies. I am really feeling hopeful about finding a place in Aspen that is safe and secure for us. Somewhere we can settle and figure out what's next.
Is there someplace we should be trying to get to. Somewhere we could work together with people to bring the world back to the way it was? Could Dr. Ben come up with a cure or vaccine or whatever, especially if he had the help of other doctors? Or was getting stuff back the way it was only a dream, and not even a smart one at that? I'm just a teenager, but even I think about stuff like that, so the adults must be wondering about stuff, too.
For now, I guess we should all really focus on Aspen and getting a safe place to figure stuff out. And people around my own age, well it's a bonus.

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