Epilogue
Mallory
In some ways, I’d never felt safer in my life. I had a real family for the first time. People who actually cared for each other and worked for a real purpose—sustainability. There were some days, it’s true, that I didn’t want to feel like a pioneer family and grow crops, weed, and can and chop wood for fuel. But I got something out of it that I didn’t get when I was working in government: a feeling of purpose. And I think Charlie felt the same way. It’s why he quit sales in the first place.
Ty had become a good hunter and I soon started feeling more relaxed about him and Charlie heading off into the woods to hunt. I even showed them what Joshua had taught me about snare hunting. Every once in a while there would be a lone infected soul that would wander into our patch a
