Spent the weekend cleaning out this old plant, and making it serviceable. Right now it's me and two recruits, I didn't think it was dangerous enough to bring any experienced soldiers along. However, I'm questioning the wisdom of my decision.
Some of the guys got together and gave me a camera for a house warming present. I took one of the dogs out for a walk Saturday night and took a couple pictures. Most didn't turn out, as I have no working flash, however, I did get a picture of the Temple.
Keep in mind, there is no working electricity this far north. The entire place seems to glow with its own inner light. I was attempting to hop the fence, to get a closer look and see the source of the strange light, when the dog started going wild. I turned and saw we'd been spotted by a truck. I hadn't heard it approach, or noticed that we were bathed in its ominous highbeams, but there it was. I saw no driver, but it was hard to make anything out, staring into the brights.
It gunned its engines, speeding forward. I dropped the leash, commanding the dog to go, it took off full speed to the left and I jumping into the bushes on the right. I braced myself to be run over, but heard the tires squealing down Bonanza, leaving us in a cloud of dirt.
Shaken and spent, we cut our walk short, heading home.
I haven't ventured across the street to the Temple again, not yet. If there are still inhabitants out here sentient enough to drive, that could be very bad news. But that's not the only thing we've had to worry about. Drug Zombies have been wandering up to our gates with increasing frequency. The dogs are well trained enough to keep quiet when they smell them, but it's only a matter of time before one of these rookies takes a pot shot at one of them and draws a horde. I've warned them, once, but it's a mistake everyone has to make.
Like a right of passage.
All's peaceful now. We'll see how long it lasts.
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