We're in a barn, not much else to say to that really...
We've walked a long distance from where we started in Leicester but now we are in Kent, still a little way to go til we are home but now spring is in full bloom we are making headway, Today we are about ten miles outside of Maidstone, somewhere I knew well back before this all happened, almost home, I can taste it now!
We also have some more survivors with us, Chantelle and Clare, we found then in this barn hiding out, they are quiet but are really happy to see other people who aren't infected, they filled us in on their story after we had settled down around the fire for the evening...
They came from Lenham, a small village between Ashford and Maidstone, and it was while they were visiting family in London that the virus hit, they explained how they watched the city begin to tear itself apart but their uncle managed to guide them through the city to safety, he managed to get them over the bridge and told them to head south, to head home, any way possible, he then headed back to find the rest of the family with only the instructions to go home and wait for him to come back, that was months ago and having tried to get through maidstone but unsuccessful due to the undead they hid in the surrounding areas, to afraid to see what had happened to their families, but they had heard of a safe place near the coast, somewhere that had the walls to keep out the dead, and that was where they wanted to head, to somewhere safe because they knew that they wouldn't last much longer on their own, so now they will travel with us, to this Haven, somewhere safe in all this madness? I have my doubts, as do Crystal and Skyler, I can see it in their eyes....
So this morning we are going to make one hell of a push, we are going to go straight through the middle of Maidstone and hope for the best, if we are lucky we might find a working vehicle or two, at which point it makes it easy to get back to Ashford, we are stopping there on our way to the coast in the hopes of finding people that we know, if we don't then we'll just have to make do, the two new girls seem highly nervous but Matt and Wes are looking after them as Crystal, Lilla, Skyler and myself go over the map, while Tara makes sure the weapons are in good order, after a quick breakfast we begin our walk to Maidstone, staying vigilant for both Undead and Survivors, all knowing what our individual jobs are within the whole.
We make it to Maidstone in a few hours and find a resting place before we push on, Crystal and I decide to scout out for a vehicle that might get us through the city quickly, we wander for a couple of hours around the local area, eventually finding a road packed with vehicles, after some searching we find a van that has fuel and starts first time, we head back to the others in the van and we all load in, Wes drives us towards the high street, which is crawling with the Undead, Luckily for us Wes dodges all but two which seem to explode as he hits them because of the state of decomposition, after ten minutes we are heading along the road out of Maidstone, On our final approach to Ashford, this is what it's all been about for us, getting home.... If there is a home left.
As we drive along I look at our little group, We have learned to work as a team in ways we never thought possible, we don't look at each other as friends anymore, we are a family in a messed up world, a family trying to get home, one day at a time, we all know that so long as we all have each other then we can do this.... for the first time in a long time I see something I thought was gone forever..... I see Hope.
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