Day 58

We started our journey southwards today. Passing signs of civilisation. As we walked in and out of the cars littering the lone road we realised that we were diving into an area deeper than we had ever been before. Survival in this environment would require different skills to those that we had been using up until now. We checked our weapons and fired a single shot each into the distance. Looking through my scope I saw the impact in a tree for mine and Sam reported hers hit another.

I checked my map, which was now attached to my belt for ease of viewing. I didn't really need to look at it but I wanted to get into the habit of it for when we moved further on.

When we reached the turning it dawned on me: a reasonably sized oversight. There was a lot of tree and bush cover but not much in the way of places to hide. If things came at us we would be in trouble.

But as we always did, and I guess we always will, we shrugged, accepted it, and carried on.

Sadly fate conspired against our progress once again. We followed the road and climbed over car after car until we saw a group of Rani. We noticed them when we were already on top of a car, and by then it was too late. They chased us. We ran back and took a side road, I desperately looked at my map for signs of other roads or houses. After a relatively short run we found a house; it was open.

The Rani would most likely catch up within about half hour after taking into consideration their inability to climb objects, so they wouldn't find us here.

Another waste of a day, brought courtesy of bad luck. But then we learnt something: encounters with Rani here will be more dangerous and we must take more care.

I hope you make another day