I was hopeful. That smoke was the first sign of people since I woke on Monday. I know it hadn’t been that long but seeing no one was disconcerting a...nd disheartening. I followed the smoke into Augusta hoping for people. As I got closer to the source of the smoke, I became scared.I wasn’t the most gregarious of people and was slow to make friends. My friends, Amos and Nat, were friends from college. There were many acquaintances but few friends. Having my younger sister living in my apartment had. It could have been the heat acting up or something else, but whatever the reason was, the point still stayed. The water was undrinkable. It had been like this for quite some time too and it was pissing both of them off.Guilmon had been especially angry from it. He enjoyed taking long baths and just relax in the bathtub and he hadn't been able to do so because of this water problem. And unknown to him, the chemicals that had gotten into his body were beginning to put him into a state that was. We’d hiked a reasonable distance, perhaps a mile or so and Julia had begun to question if it was time to turn around. Good instincts on her part; when I hike I tend to push on and on, always needing to know what’s over the next rise or around the next bend of the trail, and despite my knee, which was beginning to ache, I’d been doing the same thing.We sat down on a rock overlooking the water to discuss it, passing a water bottle back and forth and eating some of our snacks for energy. Moments. .. “Hmmm,” the doctor said as her cool fingers probed Grace’s most private place right in front of a man. “Ah, here we are.”Grace felt the condom-clad tracker being pulled out. Xenia closed her legs and lowered them. She might have sighed with relief, but she didn’t have enough breath she was strapped so tight. Somebody pulled her robe closed.“You stupid girl,” said Xenia, “how did you think we weren’t going to find it? We’ve got it anyway and now we have to interrogate you. Boris, give the.