Jack's Diary - It's About Time - Day 88

*Morning*

            Mike’s still missing. I would’ve went out to search, but the fog complicated matters and made it near impossible to find Mike, let alone not mistake a soulless for him or the other way around. Moses wanted to light the flare last night, but I convinced him to wait. I thought Mike went back on the trail to pick up equipment he dropped. I regret stopping him now. We’ll have to wait until this new patch of fog clears before lighting one now (we shouldn’t take the chance of wasting one or attract unwanted attention. Mike may also be sleeping somewhere and not watching).

            Julie’s taking it pretty hard. Moses and I take turns keeping an eye on her. She’s already tried to run off twice to find Mike.

            Moses keeps giving me looks, the kind of looks you give to someone who just cut you off in traffic.

*Noon*

            Fog’s starting to let up. It should be gone soon. A few soulless wandered into our camp. We took care of them though (probably wouldn’t have mentioned them if I wasn’t trying to prove something to myself).

            I went out and gathered some berries and then tried my hand at fishing. I had been awhile. I had some fishing line with me and asked Julie if she had a hair pin I could “borrow” to make a hook. She didn’t though I had a wire clothes hanger with me and broke a piece of it to make one; managed to catch two trout before I lost the hook.

*Early Afternoon*

            Victor and Jess are back with us. The fog cleared so Moses lit the flare. Within an hour or so (at least, it seemed like it to me), Jess and Victor came walking down along the river. They were up the river a mile or so and had stayed there for some time (we really didn’t give them a specific location along the river so it’s understandable).

            As to where they were the whole time, they claim to have woken up in a deep pit without any recollection as to how they got there. It took them two days to climb (they didn’t spend the whole time climbing. More so falling back in and trying again.) After enough wandering, they found there way to the tree fort and then here. I didn’t feel like telling them about what mike, Julie, and I were doing so Julie did the storytelling. Needless to say, they were shocked. They probably thought she was lying, but Moses confirmed her story.

            Mike still hasn’t returned. I’ll give him a few more hours before I start looking for him.

*Night*

            Mike’s back. Looked like he was going to pass out when he showed up, but he made it back. He told us he tried to lead some soulless away from camp while we were sleeping (he should’ve just woken us up). The important thing is we’re together. Mike says we’re headed toward a town for supplies. Well, it’s about time! I’ve been inching to make some new stuff.

- Jack’s Diary

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Mike's Diary Day 67 - 2 back, 1 missing

               Had a rough day yesterday, today we made the run. I'll really how it went. Woke up, android the usual things. Breakfast, checking the perimeter, supplies, and weapons. Julie woke up an hour later, and packed up her own stuff. She asked me what we are going to do now, and I told her that we were going to find our way back to the town. We walked for hours, and I used my best ability to track down pur previous route. Before we reached the town, we decided to take a little break. We sat down for a few minutes, and drank some water.
                "Do you think... we can trust Ann?" Julie broke the ice.
                "What makes you think that?"
                "There's something about her is just not right."
                "Well, I don't like to think it that way." I responded.
We got up and continued our walk to the town. Viechles of searching, I was finally able to drag our asses back to the town. Before we go into the road however, I told Julie that once we get to the open road, anything can happen, so we better run as soon as possible.  She nodded, and we were off on our way back to our base. On the way back, there were few craze, but we decided to avoid them instead of wasting our energy trying to kill those fuckers. Julie and I decided that it'd be a good idea to find a car, so that I can hotwire it, and drive it back to the base, but without luck, we didn't and what we wanted. Instead, We arrived near the building where I first met Jack. I stood there a bit longer, and looked toward that direction.
                "You okay? What are you doing?" Julie asked
                "Yeah I'm good. Just some old memories."
                "Of what?"
                "Me saving Jack."
                "Are you like the Angel of humanity or something?"
                "Why?"
                "All you do is save lives." She said
                "Well I wanted to be a police."
I continued the walk while Julie followed. I saw a motor bike, but I've never hot-wired a motor bike before. Unless they key is still attached. We walked towards it, and saw no key. However, it was parked beside a gas station, so I was guessing that the ex-owner might be other, and we might be able to acquire the key. I entered the room, and saw 3 craze. They were all sleeping? I guess, but they weren't interested in our presence that I know for sure. I saw the owner of the bike (who is now an infected), snuck up behind him, and stabbed the back of his head with my machete. Stealth, quick, instant kill. I searched for the key, and there it was. I took the key, and ran out with Julie towards the bike. I got on, so was Julie, but the problem was that it's been a long time since the bike was last used, so  I had to start it manually, by the pedal. After a few tries I figured that this was not a good idea. Craze started to notice us. We were terrified, I told Julie to take the hand gun and fire at will, while I tried to set the bike to on. Just before one of them reached us, we escaped. Good Lord, that was scary. I now have a ride, so we just head back right away to base. Once we arrived, I right away with Julie went to the supply room, and sorted our finds, then I went to check on Jack's room, but no one was there. I checked all around the base, but he wasn't anywhere to be found. Ahhhhhh this is just great. I figured that I will have a search party to go after him tomorrow, if he hasn't come back, but now, I have to start in organizing the deffence and attack strategies to use against the valors.

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