Flightless Bird...

This place was a dream compared to how she had to live when she was outside of the walls. Every moment mattered where you went, what you did, how you handled every choice. She was very relieved for the protection the walls provided. Even if they still needed to watch the walls, this was a lot better. 

She kind of absentmindedly looked at the photo again and softly slipped it back into her pocket. She didn’t think it was dumb. “No, it wasn’t dumb. It’s nice to see people still care about each other, especially within all of this where they might only start to care about their own survival and not so much about others.” She meant that as a genuine compliment to her character. That was really nice to experience. 

“It’s nice to meet you Mary, please feel free to call me Dani or Danika, whichever you’re comfortable with.” And she wasn’t sure how to answer the question. “He’ll always be in my heart and with me. I only hope we find each other again the way I knew him. What about you, are you split off from anyone?”

Mary rolled her eyes and smirked, “ Let’s hope they don’t find out about that because i’m pretty sure i would get my ass kicked, i was lucky enough to get inside the walls, i plan on making it.” she answered it truthfully. Dani was one of the few people Mary talked to in weeks, she was kind of a loner but then again everyone has their moments. 

“ Dani sounds nice and i really hope you see him again, you two seem nice together.” she said, “ Hmmm... no, i was alone when it happened thank God, right?” she lied, she was alone at the time, but her family was still outside, or not. 

After a moment she heard the woman speak and she let her gaze shift up from the obvious photo in her hand that she had been intently staring at. Taking a small breath before she spoke she, nodded softly. “I’m as okay as anyone can be in this situation.” She considered a moment and then turned the photo toward her. “I was just looking at a photo of my husband.” The photo showed a very fit man who had dark-brownish-black hair with blue eyes. He was really good looking in the photo and very handsome. She wanted to give her a chance to share things too, “I’m Danika, are you okay?” She wanted the moment to matter to both of them, not just her looking at a photo.

Mary knew this was a lot to take in, she was used to it by now, being here for a couple of months she got used to it, the whole Apocalypse type of situation they were in, never even crossed her mind that there were still people running outside looking for someone, Mary was just hoping she wasn’t found. “ Yeah, it was a dumb question anyway...after awhile it becomes more the new normal, you’ll see.” she smiled a bit, walking a little closer to the woman and looking down at the picture she was holding. “ I’m Mary, it’s nice to meet you... yeah, i’m okay, thank you. Are you looking for him...or? “ she looked down at her feet, there wasn’t anyone in here that hadn’t lost someone. 

“This is unbelievable.” She had said it only more to herself and not too loud, but anyone near her could have heard it. She had noticed that there was a lot of things here she needed to adjust to. But mostly what held her mind was other things. She had been looking at a photo of her husband, and she didn’t believe how well it had held up since she last saw him. She had noticed someone near her when she looked over. She didn’t say anything at first she just looked back down at the photo staring in disbelief. 

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Wondering around was a constant thing for Mary, seeing new faces was always a good sign, meaning there was some people ot there, after awhile you kind grow used to the faces in Fortune, always the same and the hopelessness stamped on them, Mary would give out an arm for a camera at this point. Snapping out of her thoughts, she looked to the source of the voice, “ Are you okay there?” she asked, noticing it was a new face.