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Author: secretplace
last update publish date: 2026-11-06 19:27:39

Noya’s POV

I waited in the dark for a long time after the light died.

Nothing else moved inside the house. No second flicker. No sound of footsteps. The clearing stayed quiet under the half moon. My legs had gone stiff from sitting too long, but I did not shift my weight. The crowbar remained across my knees.

Whoever was inside knew someone had been on the property during the day. The new locks I had installed would have told them that much. The fact that they had risked a light at all meant th
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  • Reborn Before the Apocalypse: He Watched Me Die   021

    Noya’s POVThe morning after the system confirmed the foundation, I did not rest.I woke before sunrise, checked every lock by touch in the dark, then walked the full perimeter while the light was still gray. The grass held no new tracks. The tree line was undisturbed. When I drove out later to inspect the secondary cache, the ground around the rock overhang looked exactly as I had left it. No one had found it. The base had held through the night. That was the only success that mattered.The new directive sat in the corner of my vision like a quiet weight.[Long-term survival preparation and strength development.] [Sub-tasks: Physical conditioning | Resource diversification | Early anomaly monitoring | Skill expansion.]I started with the body.The soft version of me had died behind a locked gate in another life. What remained still carried too much of her weakness—limited stamina, slow recovery, arms that burned too quickly under real strain, lungs that tightened after only a few ha

  • Reborn Before the Apocalypse: He Watched Me Die   020

    Noya’s POVI gave myself three more days to finish the core of the base.No more searching. No more half-measures. The walls, the water, the hidden storage, the sightlines—everything that would decide whether this place held or failed when the world finally cracked open.I started at first light each morning and worked until the dark made precision impossible.The last ground-floor windows received their inner boards and locking bars. I measured twice, cut once, and drove every screw until the wood stopped giving. Upstairs I adjusted the latches so each window could be sealed in seconds without fumbling. In the basement I finished the false panels and buried the most critical reserves under layers of wood and packed dirt that would not look freshly moved even to someone searching. The well station got a second filter, a covered holding tank, and a simple overflow route so heavy rain would not contaminate the supply. I ran a basic solar setup to the main room and tested it through two

  • Reborn Before the Apocalypse: He Watched Me Die   019

    Noya’s POVThe base was no longer empty, but it was still vulnerable.One location meant one point of failure. If someone found it—if the wrong people followed me back from the city—everything I had built could be taken in a single night. I needed a second layer.I spent the morning studying maps and satellite images I had saved earlier. Several kilometers east of the farmhouse, the land broke into low hills and denser treelines. An old service road, half swallowed by grass, led to a dried creek bed and a cluster of rocks large enough to hide a cache.I left before noon with the van loaded carefully—nothing that would look valuable at a glance. Tools. Sealed food. Water purification tablets. A spare medical kit. A second crowbar. Ammunition I had bought in small amounts over different days. I took a longer route than necessary and doubled back twice to make sure no one was following.The site was quieter than the farmhouse.I dug the main cache under the largest rock overhang, lined i

  • Reborn Before the Apocalypse: He Watched Me Die   018

    Noya’s POVI started work as soon as there was enough light to see.The house was mine on paper and by force, but it was still weak. I could feel every soft point in the walls when the wind pushed against them. I began with the doors. Longer screws. Metal plates over the frames. A second deadbolt on the front and back. I reinforced the hinges until the doors felt heavier when they closed.The windows came next.I boarded the ones on the ground floor from the inside, leaving only narrow gaps to see through. Upstairs I left more open for sightlines, but I installed latches that could be locked down fast. Every nail I drove felt like a small claim. Every board made the house harder to enter.By midday my hands were raw.I forced myself to stop only long enough to drink water and eat a little. Then I went to the well.The cover was heavy. The water below looked dark but clean enough. I lowered a test container, brought it up, and ran it through the portable filter I had brought from the c

  • Reborn Before the Apocalypse: He Watched Me Die   017

    Noya’s POVI waited in the dark for a long time after the light died.Nothing else moved inside the house. No second flicker. No sound of footsteps. The clearing stayed quiet under the half moon. My legs had gone stiff from sitting too long, but I did not shift my weight. The crowbar remained across my knees.Whoever was inside knew someone had been on the property during the day. The new locks I had installed would have told them that much. The fact that they had risked a light at all meant they were either desperate or careless.I gave them another hour.When the moon was higher, I left the van and crossed the clearing on foot. I stayed low, using the shadows of the barn until I reached the back wall of the house. The reinforced door I had sealed earlier was still closed. I moved around to the side entrance I had left as a controlled point of entry and listened with my ear against the wood.Silence.I unlocked it slowly and stepped inside.The air in the house felt different at nigh

  • Reborn Before the Apocalypse: He Watched Me Die   016

    Noya’s POVI returned the next morning with the crowbar, a heavy flashlight, new padlocks, and a bag of basic tools.The property looked the same in full daylight—solid, isolated, and quiet. I parked the van under the trees where it would be harder to see from the road, then stood still for a full minute listening. No voices. No movement. Only wind in the dry grass and the distant sound of a crow.I started with the exterior.The footprint I had seen the day before was still there. Next to it I found another, smaller one. I followed the faint trail around the back of the house. Near the basement window the smear on the frame had dried into a dark flake. When I pressed my fingers to it, it crumbled. Old blood, or something close to it.I did not like that.The back door was locked, but the wood around the frame was soft. I worked the crowbar in carefully and forced it open with one hard push. The sound was too loud in the open clearing. I stepped inside immediately and closed the door

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