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Chapter 8 — Don’t Freeze
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MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 58 — Goodbyes
The last full day at the Fire Tower arrived with surprisingly little ceremony.Nobody announced it.Nobody gathered to mark the occasion.The settlement simply woke up and continued preparing for departure, as if refusing to acknowledge that tomorrow would be different from every day that had come before it.Evelyn understood the instinct.Sometimes naming an ending made it harder to face it.The morning passed beneath clear skies and cool air drifting through the trees. The weather felt almost unfairly pleasant considering what everyone was preparing to do.People worked steadily throughout the compound.Not frantically.Not desperately.Steadily.The kind of pace that came from accepting a difficult reality and moving through it one task at a time.The trucks now stood near the gate, mostly loaded and ready. Supplies filled every available space. Fuel had been distributed. Medical kits were packed. Routes had been reviewed so many times that Evelyn could practically recite them from
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 57 — Packing
The next morning, the Fire Tower became a settlement made from piles of supplies.Supplies covered every available surface. Crates sat outside cabins, fuel cans lined the garage wall, and travel packs leaned against porches with people’s names written on strips of tape. The air carried the noise of preparation from every direction: tools clattering, engines coughing, people arguing over what counted as necessary, and children being told for the tenth time not to wander into the middle of everything.Evelyn stood near the main cabin with a cup of bitter coffee in her hand and watched the place slowly come apart.Not collapse.That would have been easier to name.This was different. The Fire Tower was being carefully dismantled into whatever they could carry north. Food became inventory. Blankets became bedding rolls. Memories became things people hesitated over before either packing them or leaving them behind.Five days had sounded generous during Warren’s meeting.Now it felt impossi
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 56 — Departure
The meeting began before sunset.Nobody needed to be told it was important.Word had spread through the settlement all afternoon, carried from cabin to cabin and worksite to worksite until everyone understood that Warren was finally going to make a decision.By the time Evelyn arrived at the main cabin, most of the settlement was already there.People crowded around tables and leaned against walls. Some stood near the windows while others settled onto benches that were never intended to hold so many bodies. The familiar space felt smaller than usual, packed with nervous energy and the quiet tension that came whenever a group of people knew their future was about to change.The map remained spread across the center table.It had become a permanent fixture over the past several weeks.Roads.Supply caches.Danger zones.Possible routes north.So many conversations had taken place around that map that Evelyn could practically picture them layered over one another.Arguments.Plans.Disag
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 55 — Competition
The infected remained on the ridge until morning.Nobody wanted to move the body in the dark, and by sunrise the story had already spread through most of the settlement. People discussed it while carrying water, checking fence lines, and preparing breakfast. Details shifted from telling to telling, but the important part remained unchanged.The Watcher had killed an infected. Then it left the body where they could find it.Not hidden. Displayed.By the time Dean, Warren, Caleb, Rowan, and Evelyn reached the overlook, a low blanket of mist still clung to the trees. The forest looked peaceful from a distance. Sunlight filtered through cedar branches, catching droplets of water and turning them silver.The corpse ruined the illusion.Dean crouched beside the body while the others gave him room to work. Nobody felt particularly eager to stand close to something the Watcher had touched.For several minutes, the only sounds came from birds deeper in the forest and the distant rush of wind m
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 54 — Testing
Nobody slept well after the Watcher smiled.By sunrise, the Fire Tower moved with the strained quiet of a settlement pretending it had not spent the night listening to the woods. Fires were lit, breakfast was cooked, water was carried from the barrels to the cabins, and yet every task seemed to require more people than it had the day before.No one went for water alone.No one checked the fence alone.Even the children stayed closer to the main cabin, watched by adults who tried very hard not to look frightened.Evelyn stepped outside with a cup of bitter coffee to warm her hands and immediately felt the change. The settlement had survived infected attacks, food shortages, storms, and grief, but this was different. Those dangers had pushed against the walls.The Watcher had looked over them.That felt more intimate somehow.More violating.Near the western fence, Dean crouched beside a patch of mud while Caleb and Mark stood over him. Their faces told Evelyn enough before she reached
MY EX LEFT ME TO DIE, SO I BECAME QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE Chapter 53 — The Smile
Nobody used the word monster. That made it worse.Monster would have been simple.A monster attacked. A monster was killed. A monster could be hunted, trapped, burned, or shot if enough people were desperate and lucky.Whatever stood at the treeline the night before had not attacked.It had waited until people saw it.Then it left.By morning, the entire settlement had changed around that fact.People moved in groups even inside the fence. The children were kept near the main cabin. The western patrol route was abandoned until daylight, and even then, nobody volunteered until Warren finally assigned names.He did not argue when Dean requested to join the search.He did not argue when Evelyn said she was going too.That alone showed how much had changed.The search party left after breakfast.Evelyn, Rowan, Dean, and Caleb crossed the western gate while Warren stood inside, watching them go. For once, he didn’t offer an order disguised as advice.He only said, “Don’t chase it.”Dean ga
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