The sun finally hung high in the air. After a long night and even longer month, peace finally started to arrive once more in their home. But it was not going to be an easily built peace. This much all of them knew. They learned almost too well from the survivors how true that it would be. A first step was all that was taken today.
UN forces continued to patrol the battle site for any survivors that might have been missed. The destruction was too vast and the influence that Takako held over the whole area made it impossible to be certain that they had found everyone. They had taken over much of the site now as Hiroshi and the others pulled back.
Masayuki stood in a new tense situation before the teenagers that helped salvage a terrible situation. He had made an agreement with Hiroshi and
