Night fell heavier than usual.
Alara’s condition worsened. She could barely keep food down—not fruit, not water. Eventually, exhaustion overtook her, and she collapsed on the couch. The girls gathered around her, worry written across their faces.
“Do you know what’s wrong with her?” Anika asked quietly.
Mei shook her head, fear creeping into her voice.She would usually make light jokes ,but ,she was sweating, biting her finger nails,almost to the brink of non-existence.
“No… maybe it’s something she ate… or something in the air. I don’t know. Maybe a new illness has appeared now that the Earth has changed. What if it spreads to us?”
A tense silence followed, broken only by the soft hum of the bunker’s filtration system. Fear rippled through the girls, their imaginations filling in the
