Reluctant Companion: Futuristic Dark Romance
Instead, she asked, “Why do we still have a lack of electricity?”
“Not enough resources or the manpower to harness them—plus, we lack the people who understand how power plants and manufacturing facilities work. I doubt you learned about it in your school days, but almost one hundred million people died just in the old United States in the few years after The End. Disease, starvation, and violence took their toll.”
She shook her head, unable to comprehend that many people at all, let alone imagining them dead. “Why do they call it The End?”
Tiernan shrugged. “I imagine it was originally something like the end of the world, or the end of the power, and was just shortened eventually.”