“What was it like? Living on that planet, I mean. With the Lankies on the other side of the front door. I can’t even imagine.” “It was—” Alex pauses for a moment as she searches for the proper words. “It was just life, you know? We were in the Vault, and they were outside. That was the state of things. We had so much to do every day, there were lots of times when I almost forgot about the Lankies, to be honest.” “I can’t even imagine being able to tune that out,” Cressey says. “I think I’d be in a constant state of terror. Knowing that they could show up any minute.”
Like any trauma, you just try to make it to the next day.
