Rocks crumbled beneath their feet as they scrabbled across the ruins of what had once been a hospital. It was barely recognizable anymore. The towering steel structure had been reduced to dust, back into the base elements from which it had come.
As had everyone inside.
No one survived. But this wasn’t a rescue mission. Instead, the people dug through the rubble, scavenging for anything that had survived—not that there was anything—or any pure metals that could be put to use fixing the devices back at their camp. It was a long shot, but it was always a long shot.
Published on November 21, 2019 15:23