Everything was polluted, the animals were going extinct all over the world, there were too many people everywhere and more being born. We were causing the world to heat up with our cars and other machines.
Few had come across the community in the eight years since the virus. That’s how limited the population was in the general area, and how remote the caves.
The older children sat at the dinner table, working on the homework. Even they sensed the tension in the room, and avoided drawing the adults’ attention.
We strode up the rise to the doorway that led into her cave home, Devon with a spring in her step, me dragging my feet as if they were made of oak boles.