Raven and Alara sat down at the wood picnic table, with the scent of smoke and sizzling barbecue meat still thick in the air. Raven placed two oversized steel plates in front of them. Each held a monstrous whale burger wedged between slices of thick, pancake like fluffy bread and drowning in melted mozzarella cheese. Beside each burger sat two meatballs the size of a human head, still steaming, coverd top to bottom in gooey mozzarella that oozed down onto the pan beneath it. Without wating, Raven reached for one of the cheese meatballs, and took a giant bite out of it, chewing slowly with reverence and passion as she said. "Mozzarella cheese makes everything taste good,"Alara eyed Raven, one eyebrow raised. "Raven, if I wasn't already sure that neither of us are human, I would think eating this much meat would kill you and make you explode from the inside out."Raven and Alara both burst into laughter. "Hahaha.""You got that right," Raven said between breaths. "But you're one to talk. You're a zombie. I don't think there is a limit to that bottomless pit you call a stomach. I have seen you finish off an entire cow before."Alara took a bite of her whale burger, cheese clinging to her face as she said. "That was right after the first couple days of me evolving enough to be able to talk and act normal around you. You never told me we are not supposed to eat a whole cow. I'm sorry I ate the cow, but we have thousands more inside Sanctuary. One or two going missing every few days is not going to hurt anything."Raven shook her head wiping grease from her chin with a napkin. "Thank God we have the Apocalypse Ascendancy System Alara. Otherwise, feeding you or me, for that matter, would be impossible.""Amen to that, Raven," Alara said, raising her burger to take another bite.They devoured their entire feast in silence, chewing their way through both enormous meatballs and two more killer whale cheeseburgers, the metal trays were scraped clean of food by the end of the barbecue. With a satisfied sigh, Raven stood up and began cleaning. She stored away the speedboat, now damaged but intact enough to repair. Then came the massive killer whale carcass, carefully placing it into the system storage for research not to make a cyborg out of it, of course. Mighty Mouse disappeared next, along with the remaining butchered meat. When it was all done, Raven walked up the incline leading away from the beach and stood at the edge of the empty road. With a command, she summoned the Ironhowl X4 from the system space. The SUV landed with a hiss from the tire suspension.Raven climbed into the driver's seat. Alara opened the passenger seat door and climbed in beside her, resting her hands in her lap. "Where's our next destination Raven?"Raven turned the ignition and responded saying. "We're going to observe the local wildlife and see if any more animals on the outskirts of New York are starting to mutate in mass quantities. If they are, things are about to get a lot more fun. You're getting close to your stage two evolution Alara, and I'm getting closer to my level two awakening."Raven adjusted the AC on the dashboard as she continued saying. "I will also work on my new drones. One is going to be a two-in-one unit that splits into two separate drones so I can maximize the deployment slots from the system. The other will be a high-altitude surveillance drone loaded with some nifty toys."Alara looked out the window thoughtfully. "So what animals are we going to look at first?"Raven smiled and answered, "We're going to check out my favorite birds. A flock of ravens. I mean, who doesn't love a bird that's named after them?"Alara blinked, then asked in complete innocence, "So who came first Raven? You or the birds?"Without a shred of hesitation, Raven said, "I came before the birds, of course Alara. Anything named Raven is named after me. I'm Raven. The first person since the dawn of time to ever bear this name."Alara nodded slowly, her eyes wide with innocent belief. "That makes sense. You do feel like the original Raven."The engine rumbled as Raven drove out onto the highway. "Just like hawks, ravens are birds of prey Alara. They love to scavenge roadkill, and they're extremely intelligent. Like crows, but way cooler. Because they're named after me."Alara nodded her head in agreement. "That makes perfect sense to me."They drove for forty-five minutes through what was once suburban New York. The snow has melted in several patches, revealing dirt, gravel, and the abandoned mass exodus out of New York: flipped over strollers, broken luggage bags, burned-out vehicles. Eventually, they reached a wide open field, untouched by tire tracks or roads, where the wind moved with regret.The Ironhowl slowed to a crawl. Before them, the entire field was littered with the skeletal remains of people who tried to flee New York City during the first days of the collapse. Bones stuck out from torn coats. Rusted gun rifles laid beside empty boots. But it wasn't the remains that made Raven stop the engine.It was the Ravens.Thousands of them. An endless black tide of glossy black feathers and pointed beaks, eating from every inch of exposed flesh on the human remains. Some circled in the sky occasionally landing to pick at bones. Some landed, while others watched.Raven and Alara stepped out of the Ironhowl and stood side by side. The wind carried the low cawing from the flock of Ravens as they surveyed the eerie scene. Raven narrowed her eyes, her voice saying."Let's see if any of them have mutated."
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