The Wanderers

Jonathan's POV

We're in the main building of Main City.

The cameras are facing us, and the smallest groups of kids that I've seen. The survivors.

They are the only ones that made, desperate to stay alive, and be reunited with their families. But after everything that's happened, they look like empty shells of what they use to be.

It's Celia who's talking into the cameras; the feed is being shown to every available screen in the city. She looks more like an adult than the child she is, and I feel a wave of sadness.

"We have no government, and we have no one to lead us. The time to choose what we do and how we do it is now. We ask that each person vote on someone they trust to be the leaders. No one that approved of the Testing trials, or experimenting on children may enter." and when she says this part, there's fire in her eyes, as if she's daring them to do it.

"We're on our own now." she says, as the cameras cut out.

Several months later...

I wake up sore fr