Chapter 2: Chapter 2 – Rest and Recovery

When I woke up, I was in the hospital clinic in Eastland. Doctor Sherri Williams, a young girl who had gone to vet school and was home for the day when everything went down, was in the room. Next to her, in the uncomfortable chair that every doctor’s office has, was Danny. “Hey, look who’s awake.”

The doctor smiled and patted my arm. I winced. “It’s about time. We were wondering how long you were going to be asleep."

I groaned as I sat up. “How long was I out?” My head was pounding and the air smelt stale.

Danny shrugged before checking his pocket watch, “39 hours?” He loved his watch. Danny had looted it off some mob in the first week or two and it was one of the only clocks that worked. Every digital clock in town had gone down with the rest of the electricity.

“It’s Thursday?”

“Yep.” He gave me a comforting look. It was something Danny was great at doing.

I groaned. “Where are you at?”

Danny cocked his head to the side, “Huh?”

“What level?”

“Oh! Uhh…4% to Level 13. So 12.”

I frowned and checked my own. I was 2% to 13. “I thought you’d be higher.”

“Well…we didn’t go anywhere yesterday. Gave the guys today off as well.”

“Why?” I was confused. Danny was always out there, good weather or bad.

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“You were hurt. We’ve been taking shifts so one of us would be here when you woke up.”

I checked my rank: 13,980. I had gone up. This was good. I looked over Danny, “I’m not part of your group. You don’t need to worry about me.”

“You’ve made your independence very clear, Jeremiah. I wish you’d reconsider, but I know you won’t. Still, you’re a part of Eastland even if you aren’t. Now that you’re back to your…gracious self…I’m going to go to the bar.” All of the food that was created prior to the start of this was now useless. It didn't fill up hunger. The alcohol worked just fine though. Whoever started this whole thing gave us that.

I frowned as Danny stood up and went to walk out. He seemed upset. “Wait! Danny…”

He turned to look at me, raising his eyebrows. “Yeah?”

“Thank you.” I gave a half smile as he gave me one right back.

“No problem, man.”

I laid back down and groaned as I fell back asleep.

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I woke up later in the day to a new message.

 

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