I am just a schoolteacher. A schoolteacher that lived through an apocalypse.
[Nadine shrugs, glancing away and taking a long drag off of her cigarette. The end of her world is something she doesn't shy away from talking about, there's no reason to. Plenty of people came from really screwed up worlds, including ones where humanity was completely extinct.
Besides, it explained why she keeps to herself the way she does. Once you've dropped the end of the world bomb, any signs of trauma would just get chalked up to that. Maybe someday she can fool herself into thinking that's all it is, too.
Probably not. But she can pretend.]
And no, it was a lot more Biblical. Government superflu got out. Crazy high infection rate, no cure, only a tiny fraction of the population was naturally immune. I was one of them.
[Though sometimes she wonders. Immune...or protected? Not that it matters at this point, she survived and she's here. Somehow.]
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[Nadine shrugs, glancing away and taking a long drag off of her cigarette. The end of her world is something she doesn't shy away from talking about, there's no reason to. Plenty of people came from really screwed up worlds, including ones where humanity was completely extinct.
Besides, it explained why she keeps to herself the way she does. Once you've dropped the end of the world bomb, any signs of trauma would just get chalked up to that. Maybe someday she can fool herself into thinking that's all it is, too.
Probably not. But she can pretend.]
And no, it was a lot more Biblical. Government superflu got out. Crazy high infection rate, no cure, only a tiny fraction of the population was naturally immune. I was one of them.
[Though sometimes she wonders. Immune...or protected? Not that it matters at this point, she survived and she's here. Somehow.]