The Shards Survivors. Joe McKinnon

that seems to be ‘normal’ is the northern tip, where there is land not densely occupied by humans. This is where we have to go, we can’t stay here in Wellington and Lower Hutt. The Shards locations are growing by the hour, we will be trapped or worse, killed.

      The northern tip of the North Island seems to be remarkably untouched by the Shards. Everywhere else we can see signs of the Shards building their new domain. We have learnt the hard way that we can’t co-exist with the Shards’ structures, and with them encroaching on our base here we have to move before it’s too late. Going north is the only sane way to go.

      I’ve pointed this out to various people in the room and Sammy. Sammy agrees that this is the best direction to aim for, and with a knowing smile says “Tomorrow I have a plan for us all, however tonight we must eat and rest because tomorrow is going to be a long day.”

       1/2/2013 @ 9pm

      Scouts have reported back saying that Auckland isn’t there anymore, but was still readily driveable as long as we can reach in by seven days, otherwise they predicted the way will be closed, due to the Shards.

       1/2/2013 @ 10pm

      Bubbles asked me if I still loved her. I was taken back by her question, told her that I loved her more than any time before. She then asked me if I’d protect her from harm, and take good care of her and our baby. Of course I would.

      I asked her why she was asking me these questions, her response just floored me.

      Darling we are too few in number to make a successful go of living off the land. We will need babies foremost, and that our current population is heavily biased to young males, who don’t have any partners. Who’s going to control them? They will try and get me and others. It’s natural for them to have urges, but I don’t know if they can control themselves. We need women otherwise I’m worried that there will be fighting over the scarcity of women, that they might kill or injure others for access to women.

      I said I didn’t think that will happen, besides we will find people along the way that will want to join our merry bunch of survivors in search of a better place to live. I couldn’t paint a rosy picture, as I was unable to see one, but I remained positive for Bubbles.