Chapter 8Jenna shouldn’t have been surprised when he led her to a garage in the same neighbourhood as his apartment complex. The houses in a surrounding enclave were one-storey, mostly brick, but heavily eroded by the winds and atmosphere of the Asteroid 7 atmosphere. Each one of the houses seemed to have been worn down, like a jagged piece of quartz in a stone tumbler. Their pace slowed as they walked by the houses, and all the while, Davis explained that in this area of the planet, there had once been a large human population.
“What happened?” she asked. There was no sidewalk, so they walked hand in hand in the middle of a road. There was no one else around, and it seemed as if most of the houses had been boarded over.
“A plague came,” Davis answered. “Made people stay indoors all the
