Ellie and crew head off to the highway for some recon, and almost run into a patrol. They hide just in time, and the patrol gets spooked by a rabbit instead. I heard a rifle being cocked, a few comments, then a violently loud explosion. The rabbit suddenly became little fragments of rabbit, spread over…

The next morning, the other four teens return from their recon mission in Wirrawee. Ellie has a moment of wondering where her line is again when she realizes Chris brought cigarettes and booze back with him, because…kind of a weird thing to get stuck on. Reminds me of the running theme of the characters operating…

Monday morning a dark river of aircraft flowed overhead for an hour or more. Not ours unfortunately. I’d never seen so many aircraft. They looked like big fat transport planes and they weren’t being molested by anyone, though a half-hour later six of our Air Force jets whistled past on the same route. We waved…

There’d been a few visitors in the short time we’d been away. Looters had come, and like at Chris’s they had taken jewellery and a few other bits and pieces. My watch, some silver photo frames, my Swiss Army knife. They hadn’t done much damage. I felt sick about it but was too tired to…

Ellie waits in nervous anticipation for the mission to begin. the only useful things I’d found in the Council Depot, apart from ignition keys, were these safety helmets. I’d but one on and chucked six more in the truck. They probably wouldn’t stop a bullet, but they might make the difference between death and just…