From the journal of Carol Evans, May 13

May 13, 2017

This morning started out like every other morning, how were we to know our world would change today. We were eating lunch and discussing what movie we were going to watch tonight when we all heard a male voice calling out to us outside. Eric and Sean jumped up and beat the rest of us to the door, grabbing their rifles on the way. They stopped in the doorway and pointed the guns at whoever was outside.
The next few minutes were really tense as as conversation took place with us inside and someone outside yelling back and forth. After whoever was outside answered enough questions from all of us, we decided it was safe to meet outside at the gate.

That's when we met Williams and Gary. They told us about their group and some of what they have been through. They explained that they had come to Aspen to stay and wanted to know if that would be OK with us. I think Sean is especially glad to hear there is a girl around his own age in their group. After we spoke for about an hour, it was decided that they would settle in next door for the rest of today and then tomorrow, our groups will meet for breakfast. They have a chef and she will make food for everyone. From there, we will see if we might be able to become one group.
The idea of combining groups makes me feel apprehensive. After red parka guy and his friends, I just don't trust people in the same way anymore. We'll have to take our time deciding whether to combine into one group, make sure they are good people and not hiding any evil.
There are only five of us and there are over 40 of them. They could kill us and take our compound and there would be nothing we could do about it. Jeez, they could just take our place and force us out if they wanted to. I really hope they are as nice as Williams and Gary seem to be. It would be nice to have more people around, some my age as well. It would make patrolling and keeping our place safe a lot easier.
Our place is a really big house that sits on a walled area of around 10 acres. Everyone would fit, but we'll have to wait and see. Although, I am looking forward to seeing kids, I've missed the noise they make just being kids. I used to love when kids would come into my music store and to hear kids playing again would be better than music to me.

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