Dawn
My eyes are unfocused, so Officer Mills is a blur as she comes to check on me. Lucas is dead and I can"t completely wrap my foggy head around that yet. He spent his last days in the bed right beside mine. I don"t know how Grace can sit here and not fall to pieces when she sees the empty bed. She loved Lucas deeply despite it being against the rules for officers to fraternize with their soldiers. He and Grace saved my life and then became my friends. He was a good person.
I wipe the tears from my eyes and grab Grace"s hand as she passes by.
“The world needed more men like him, Grace,” I say.
The doctors say that I"m on the right side of the disease now. My body has beaten it and now I just need to get stronger. They say the disease has run its course through the compound and the qu
