At seven in the morning, Ronan Kendrick made a point of cleaning the RV's windshield before they set off. Neither of them knew which direction to go; perhaps if they just kept driving forward, they would find a way out.
Upbeat music played in the RV. Evelyn Ford, dressed in her pajamas, yawned in the passenger seat. Ronan Kendrick told her to go back to bed and sleep a little longer, but she refused, insisting on keeping him company. The ride was a bit bumpy, so Ronan drove very slowly.
The RV ambled across the barren land. Gazing out the window at the desolate surface, Evelyn Ford couldn't help but sigh. The combined destructive power of all the natural disasters from the past decade couldn't hold a candle to the terror of this one.
Azure had completely transformed into a gray-black garbage planet.
'How long can we survive on this planet? Can it even be restored?'
