- 4 hours ago
Ashes to Empire [Full Movie] | English Dubbed | Mega short Drama
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00When that rusty boning knife sliced open my wrist artery
00:02I didn't even feel pain, just relief
00:05Gear 3 of the sports show the populace tense locked in at 149 degrees Fahrenheit every single day
00:08I was too flashy back then and my whole stash got raided on day one
00:11Then my husband Blake and his axe Vanessa basically kept me as livestock
00:14See, I have typo blood and in a world dying of dehydration
00:17My blood was their fancy kombucha
00:19Blake chubbed the warm liquid straight from my wrist
00:21Then slid the other half bowl to Nessa with those soft, loving eyes
00:25Nessa, drink up, this is the last of it
00:28Once you do, we'll have enough strength to get out of here
00:30I just lay there on the cracked floor
00:31Watching these two parasites live their best lives off my blood
00:34Last time around I was Blake's ride or die wife
00:36Sitting on dividends from two publicly traded companies
00:38Yet somehow in the apocalypse I ranked below a stray dog
00:40As my consciousness faded, I heard the scorching wind howling outside
00:43Like the universe was laughing at what a sucker I'd been
00:44Then I opened my eyes again, an AC vent hit me and I literally shivered
00:47And instead of corpses, I was back at that same mahogany negotiating table
00:50Blake slapped a divorce agreement in front of me
00:53Totally checked out
00:54Ivy, don't push your luck
00:56The Riverview penthouse goes to me
00:57That dirt plot goes to you
00:58Final offer
00:59Keep it up and Nessa's gonna lose her patience
01:02I glanced at my phone
01:03June 1st, 2026
01:04Exactly one month before the sun became the Grim Reaper
01:06I pushed down the rage boiling in my chest
01:08And took a good look at his so-called luxury penthouse
01:10Priciest development in the city
01:12Full glass curtain walls, killer views
01:13But in the apocalypse
01:14It's just a 360 degree solar oven
01:16With zero blind spots
01:17Anyone inside would be beast jerky within half a day
01:19And that dirt plot Blake mentioned
01:21An abandoned civil defense bunker way out in the suburban hills
01:23Sure, nothing grew on top and people swore it was haunted
01:25But underneath was 20 meters of solid underground space
01:27I took a slow, deep breath
01:29Pulled out my best
01:29Completely losing it
01:30Performance
01:31Picked up the pen with a trembling hand
01:32Fine, I'll sign
01:34And done
01:34I'm heading to the mountains to grow vegetables
01:36And I never want to see either of you again
01:38Blake and Nessa exchanged a look
01:40Couldn't hide the glee
01:42As far as they were concerned
01:43I'd finally lost the plot
01:44Trading a $27.4 million penthouse for a pile of dirt
01:46The second I signed
01:47Nessa swooped in with that fake sweet smile
01:48Ivy, don't be mad at Blake
01:50Sure, the plot's in the middle of nowhere
01:52But hey, peace and quiet
01:52Living solo could be really good for you
01:54The sarcasm was practically dripping off her face
01:56I didn't even look at her
01:57Grabbed my piece and walked
01:58Stepped out of the law firm into noon sun
02:00That felt like a personal attack on my eyeballs
02:02Not this time
02:03No more playing dumb
02:03First order of business
02:05Not shopping
02:06Money
02:06But I couldn't touch my main accounts
02:08Blake was still watching every transaction
02:10And that greedy man would've swooped in the second anything moved
02:14So I drove straight to the biggest luxury resale shop in the city
02:17My trunk was packed
02:18Hermes bags
02:19Limited edition watches
02:20And all the jewelry I used to treat like it was irreplaceable
02:22The owner watched me dump tens of thousands of dollars worth of bags on his counter
02:25Like I was tossing out trash
02:26And just
02:27Mrs. Donovan, are you?
02:28I cut him off
02:28Ice cold
02:29Not a Donovan anymore
02:30Cash for everything
02:31No wire transfers
02:32You can knock off 20%
02:33But I walk out with the money within the hour
02:35And you don't breathe a word
02:36Smart guy
02:37He flipped the sign and thought to counting
02:39Two hours later I walked out with two black garbage bags
02:41That used to hold cat food
02:42Now stuffed with $690,000 cash
02:44Not a fortune
02:45But for bulk basic supplies
02:47More than enough
02:48Skipped going home
02:49Went straight to a rental place instead
02:51And picked up a beat up
02:52Mutt's flattered minivan that had seen better decades
02:54Ditched the heels
02:55Threw on some $20 work boots and a pair of tough jeans
02:58Looking at my bare face in the mirror
03:00I finally felt safe for the first time
03:01In the hell that's coming
03:02Beauty is a liability
03:04Lending in is the only armor that matters
03:05Next up
03:06Time to claim my fortress
03:07That haunted garbage dump
03:08Everyone rode off
03:09Three hours of bumping down the dirt road
03:11And we finally arrived at the base of a barren mountain
03:14Desolate was an understatement
03:15Weeds and rocks are everywhere
03:16Halfway up the slope sat a rusty iron gate
03:18The bunker entrance
03:19I shoved open that heavy door
03:21And got hit with a wave of moles and damp
03:23Also rat
03:23Lots of panicked rats
03:25Inside was pitch black
03:26Flooded
03:26Trashed
03:27With mystery spider webs covering every single corner
03:29In normal times
03:30You couldn't pay a homeless guy to sleep here
03:32But to me
03:32This was the arc
03:33I flipped on my flashlight and pushed deeper
03:35Bagging the whole way
03:36Built in the 1960s
03:38Reinforced concrete frame
03:40Sitting 20 meters underground
03:41At least 10 degrees cooler than outside
03:43When the heat wave hits and surface temps spike to 158 degrees Fahrenheit
03:47This place becomes a natural AC unit
03:48Current condition though
03:49Raw
03:50Ventilation shafts completely blocked
03:51All wiring dead
03:52And the well I remembered from last time had zero water
03:54Just dried up sludge
03:56Turning this into a safe house met one hard rule
03:57No contractors
03:58Blake had connections everywhere
03:59One piece of heavy machinery rolling into these hills
04:01And he'd know by lunch
04:02I had to do this and style
04:03One grain of sand at a time
04:04I made a list
04:05Clear the sludge
04:06Reinforce the gate
04:07Fix ventilation
04:08Stoppile supplies
04:09Every single item
04:09Pure manual labor
04:10First move
04:11I drove the car inside
04:12And shut the gate
04:13Home for the next few days
04:14That night I slept across the back seat
04:15Eating stale bread that could've doubled as drywall
04:17Then Blake's social media popped up on my phone
04:19There he was
04:19Him and Nessa
04:20Wine glasses raised
04:21Floor to ceiling windows behind them
04:23Finally gave the love of my life a real home
04:25I chewed my bread and laughed
04:26Cold and quiet
04:27Enjoy it
04:27That giant window
04:28Is gonna be your personal death trap
04:30So you'll be on your knees
04:32Begging for shade
04:33And a single drop of water
04:34First thing next morning
04:35Priority one
04:36Water
04:37The apocalypse doesn't kill you with heat
04:39It kills you with thirst
04:40Last life I watched people do the unthinkable for
04:42Half a cup of mud water
04:43Phoebe in the bunker
04:44Sat in an abandoned mechanical well
04:45I tied a rope around my waist
04:47Clipped on a headlamp
04:48And lowered myself down
04:49Bottom of the well
04:50Black sludge
04:51Full stench
04:52Wrath skeletons
04:52The smell nearly evicted my last meal on the spot
04:55No crew
04:55No shortcuts
04:56Just me and a tiny bucket
04:57Doing sad little laps
04:58Scoop mud
04:58Climb up
04:59Thump
04:59Repeat
04:59Three straight days
05:00Humi shovel
05:01Zero benefits
05:01Black sludge from head to toe
05:03Snap nails
05:04Palms bubbling with blisters
05:05Every roll call felt like
05:06My arms were going to broke
05:07But I couldn't stop
05:08Because I still remembered what it felt like
05:10When your throat turns to dust
05:11And your blood goes thick
05:12Fourth day
05:12Just afternoon
05:13One shovel strike
05:14And cold liquid exploded
05:16Straight into my face
05:17Ground water
05:18Muddy as hell
05:19But alive
05:20I sat at the bottom watching the water
05:22Rise past my ankles
05:23Cold soaking through skin
05:24All the way to bone
05:25I spooked up two hands of brown water
05:26And just lost it laughing
05:27But then somewhere in the laughing
05:28The crying showed up uninvited
05:29This well was my ticket
05:30My whole plan hinged on
05:32I climbed out and drove straight to the hardware
05:34District
05:34No rest
05:35Get to every legit store
05:36Beeline for the sketchy little shops
05:38On the city's outskirts
05:39Needed the best submersible pump available
05:40Plus bulk activated carbon
05:41Quartz sand
05:42And PP cotton filter cartridges
05:44Spread the purchases
05:44Across a dozen shops
05:45To stay invisible
05:46Pulled each one I was buying for a fish farm
05:48Out in the sticks
05:49On top of all that
05:5050 giant plastic water storage tanks
05:52The well was great
05:53But groundwater drops
05:54In late stage heat events
05:55So I needed 3 years worth stored up
05:57Starting now
05:57Water done
05:58Next up
05:59Not getting baked a lie
06:00On the ground stays cool
06:01But extreme surface heat conducts right down
06:04Can't insulate the whole hillside
06:06Way too obvious
06:07So I went with the dumbest
06:09Sneaky's plan
06:10Land inside
06:10Drove the van to every building supply market nearby
06:12And cleared out 3 shops of thermal wall
06:14And full of bubble wrap
06:16Cheap
06:16Lights
06:18Of a small country
06:19Land maxed out fast
06:20So I just kept making trips
06:21Those days I was a machine
06:22A very bruised machine
06:23Hoaring by day
06:24Setting foam on walls by night
06:26No crew
06:26Build my own scaffolding
06:285 meter ceiling
06:29Bell off twice
06:30Lags were more than a project of hooses
06:32Hundreds of tops of industrial pieces
06:34And so corroded they shed a full layer of skin
06:36But watching those molding walls vanish on the silver foil
06:38One sheet at a time
06:39Was every blister
06:40It's not just walls
06:42It's a shield between me and the end of the world
06:44Outside camouflage mattered even more
06:45The ventilation shafts were halfway up the slope
06:47To hide any sign someone lived here
06:49I transplanted dead grass and scrub brush
06:51Over every shaft opening
06:53Then staged the premium garbage pile by the entrance
06:56Busted furniture
06:57Clothes that had given up on life
06:58I need to make every passerby
07:00Gag and walk faster
07:01Because when it all hits the fan
07:03Nobody's playing nice
07:03Right in the middle of all this
07:04Nessa called
07:06Ivy
07:07Heard you've been collecting junk?
07:08Blake and I are worried
07:09Obviously
07:10So we saved you a housewarming invite
07:12You have to come
07:13Blake laughed in the background
07:16Actually don't
07:17You'll track poverty all over the new floors
07:19I looked at the tub of wet concrete in my hands
07:21And kept it short
07:21Congrats
07:22Hope you have kids soon
07:23You won't have long to enjoy it anyway
07:25Two weeks left
07:27Infrastructure done
07:28Time to fill the pantry
07:29Still had around 138k cash left
07:32No supermarket runs
07:33Those flagged the algorithm
07:34Drove hundreds of miles to farming regions
07:37I bought it straight from growers
07:38Aged rice
07:38Brown rice
07:39A husk grain
07:40Stuff city people won't touch
07:41Cheap stores forever
07:42Perfect
07:42Cash only
07:43200 tons per pound
07:44Blend suspension
07:45Formally large and complete
07:46Mound beans
07:46Soybeans
07:47Red beans
07:48Not just food either
07:49Sprout them when desperate
07:50And boom
07:51Vitamins
07:52Beyond grains
07:53Salt and sugar
07:54Non-negotiable
07:54A full metric ton of coarse salt
07:56Spread across dozens of small shops
07:57Extreme heat
07:58Means constant sweating
07:59No salt
08:00Means electrolyte crash
08:01Means dead
08:02Meat
08:02Skip fresh entirely
08:03Power hog
08:05Hard to store
08:05Went with thousands of canned one-chimit tins
08:07And the saddest
08:08Densest compressed biscuits
08:09Not optimizing for taste
08:10Calories only
08:11Every run
08:11Was a full-body workout
08:12Did not sign up for
08:1350-pound rice bags
08:1520 at a time into the bunker
08:16Shoulders
08:17Raw
08:17Scab
08:18Raw again
08:19But watching those empty shelves fill up
08:20Bag by bag
08:21Better than every Hermes
08:23I ever owned
08:24Last low dunk
08:25I passed the pharmacy
08:26Remembered Nessa losing it over a scratch last time
08:29Then gilting Blake into cutting my flesh so she could heal
08:32I walked in stone-faced
08:33And cleared the shelf
08:34I done
08:34Antibiotics
08:35Anti-inflammatories
08:36Painkillers
08:36All of it
08:36Cashier stared
08:37I didn't blink
08:38Stalking a construction site
08:40Fucking out
08:41Lightning slid the sky
08:42Thunder
08:43Low and wrong
08:44Air gone thick and electric
08:45The opening act had begun
08:47Three days out
08:48Weather Bureau slapped a red heat alert on everything
08:50Experts on TV calling it a temporary El Mino
08:53Just stay calm
08:54Only I knew the temperature was never coming back down
08:57Drill the van to the deepest part of the bunker
08:59Pulled the battery
09:00That thing was my backup storage unit now
09:02On the final lockdown
09:04Rubber steel plates over every side entrance
09:06Left only the most hidden main door
09:08Sui layer defense on the main entry
09:10Layer 1
09:10The garbage pile out front
09:12Layer 2
09:12A door that looks wooden
09:13Armored with bulletproof steel plate
09:15Layer 3
09:16The original half-meter thick reinforced blast door
09:18That came with the place
09:19Added a manual mechanical lock
09:20No power needed
09:21Brute force proof
09:22Done
09:22Checked every ventilation shaft
09:24That's where the activated carbon earned its keep
09:26Packed every duct with filter layers against outside toxins and airborne disease
09:30Finally
09:31Fired up the modified diesel generator
09:33Ran attached on the deep low pump
09:35Hmm
09:35Low mechanical growl
09:37And clean groundwater started flowing into the tanks
09:39Watch the gauge climb
09:41Felt my shoulders drop for the first time in weeks
09:42Powered off my phone
09:43Pulled the sim card
09:45From this moment
09:45Ivy Caldwell was officially off the grid
09:48Boiled a pot of noodles
09:50Chew eggs on top
09:51Ate every bite
09:52Then
09:52Pashed out on the moisture barrier mat
09:53Listening to the wind pick up outside
09:54Tomorrow the sun shows its teeth
09:57And I'm ready
09:59June 30th
09:596 a.m
10:00Shoe up in the cool morning
10:02Outdoor temp
10:02113 degrees fahrenheit
10:03Before breakfast
10:04By noon
10:05Surface temp hit 140 degrees fahrenheit
10:07Asphalt started melting
10:08Roads turned into slow motion tar pits
10:09Roadside trees yellowed
10:11Curled
10:12Then just caught fire
10:13Ambulance sirens everywhere
10:15Until the ambulance tires blew out
10:1720 meters underground
10:18I watched it all on my monitors
10:20Solar cameras
10:21Mountain peak
10:21Very sneaky
10:23The footage looked like someone slapped a red filter on reality itself
10:27Even down here I felt a faint warmth
10:29My thermostat said 79 to
10:31I was in pajamas
10:32Biting into a fresh radish I just pulled
10:34Crisp
10:35Juicy
10:36Magnificent
10:36That crunch
10:37Priceless in the apocalypse
10:38I audibly sighed with contentment
10:40Pulled out the backup phone
10:41Caught a weak satellite signal
10:42Social media had fully lost the plot
10:44Blake's speed was still updating
10:45Different vibe though
10:46Yesterday
10:48Steak and wine
10:49Today
10:49Why is this AC so useless?
10:51Someone call the building manager
10:52Photo attached
10:52His prize four to ceiling windows
10:53Now wallpapered in newspaper
10:55And bag sheets for shade
10:56That all glass penthouse
10:57Was now premium human easy bake oven
10:59Even with curtains
11:00Indo tents had to be pushing 122 degrees fahrenheit
11:02I pictured Nessa's surgery
11:04Enhan's face slowly warping in the heat
11:05And felt absolutely nothing
11:07A1
11:07The main event hadn't even started
11:09Day 3 of the heat
11:10City power grid
11:11Deceased
11:12Transformers exploding all night
11:14Honestly a great light show
11:15No power meant no water pumps
11:18For anyone living in a high rise
11:19This was game over
11:20Blake called 17 times
11:22I powered up my old number and picked up
11:24Navy
11:25Where are you?
11:26Does that plot have water?
11:28Nessa's shrieking in the background
11:30I'm dying
11:31I need water
11:32Blake do something
11:33I took a long slow sip of my ice cold mint water
11:35And put on my best barely alive voice
11:37I'm not doing great either
11:38Rats everywhere
11:39Hot
11:39Smells terrible
11:40So thirsty
11:40Blake heard I was worse off
11:42And immediately pivoted
11:43Useless
11:44Should've kept the place
11:45At least I could've sold it for water money
11:47Click
11:48Gone
11:49On my monitor
11:49I'm going to see the day
11:50Of Blake's building
11:51Have people smashing windows
11:52And looting already
11:53The penthouse kept them safe for now
11:55But no elevator means climbing down 50 floors
11:57Means dying of dehydration
11:58I looked over at my hydroponic vegetable rack
12:00Lettuce going under the LED grow lights
12:02Almost aggressively green
12:04Auto drip system delivering nutrients every 10 minutes like clockwork
12:06Drip
12:07Down here in the quiet
12:08That sound was basically a symphony
12:09No rush
12:10I'd wait
12:11However long it took for them to go from people to monsters
12:13Two weeks gone
12:14Everything on the surface
12:15Charcoal
12:16The mountains in the distance had gone full grim reaper aesthetic
12:18Except for my spa
12:20I've been careful
12:20Almost perfect
12:21The ventilation shafts
12:22Were covered in dead rot
12:23Where all that underground moisture kept pumping up
12:26And the supposedly dead weeds on top had gone
12:27And sprouted back
12:29Green
12:29In the landscape of total black death
12:31That tiny patch of green was basically a neon sign
12:332pm
12:33Security alert
12:34A civilian drone
12:36Wobbling up from the base of the mount
12:38Moving slow
12:39Operator clearly running on film
12:41The camera circled a few times
12:43It locked onto that little green patch
12:46Then the drone dropped altitude
12:47My stomach dropped with it
12:49Busted
12:50Not by Blake
12:51By whatever survivors were still crawling around out there
12:53Because in the apocalypse
12:54Green means water below
12:55Green means livable temperature
12:57I watched the monitor
12:58And reached under my pillow
12:59Custom compound crossbow
13:00Homemade
13:00Very effective
13:01If I couldn't hide it anymore
13:02The next best option was permanent silence
13:04On screen
13:04The drone suddenly spun around
13:05And bolted back down the mountain
13:07Which meant one thing
13:09They were coming
13:09All of them
13:10For the only green thing left on earth
13:11On the monitors
13:12Two sketchy figures crept up from the mountain base
13:14Local village deadbeats
13:16One tall
13:16One short
13:17Carrying machetes that had seen better days
13:19Following the drone's GPS trail
13:20Straight toward me
13:20Planning to keep this jackpot all to themselves
13:22I zoomed in on the camera
13:24Got a good look at the naked greed in their eyes
13:27Bro
13:27What could even be out here
13:28Shut up
13:58The drone caught green grass
13:59Under dead grass and trash
14:00Bro
14:01Air
14:01Cold air
14:03That chill creeping up from underground
14:04Absolutely lethal temptation
14:05They went feral on the iron grate
14:07Practically trying to bend steel bars with their hands
14:09I wasn't about to give them the chance
14:11I was already posted behind the guncourt on the inside
14:13Crosshairs lopped steady on the fat one's femoral artery
14:15The bolt punched clean through his thigh
14:17Tip coming out the other side
14:19His screams sent a flock of half dead crows scattering
14:22Before he even processed it
14:23I reloaded
14:24The second bolt went through his shoulder
14:26And pinned him to the scorching rock
14:27They dropped
14:28The blood evaporated off the ground almost instantly
14:30Out here wounded and immobile is just a slower way of saying dead
14:33I didn't finish them off
14:34Just watch the monitors cold as ice
14:35Track them from thrashing to steel to two dried out husks
14:38That was my first lesson after coming back
14:40Mercy for intruders is just cruelty to yourself
14:433am is the coolest part of the day
14:44And it's still 113 degrees fahrenheit
14:46I suited up in my anti-stab gear
14:47Grabbed an entrenching tool
14:48And pushed open the heavy blast door
14:50Both bodies had gone fully rigid
14:52Yaking of that burnt, sour stench
14:54No sympathy, not even a little
14:55I grabbed them by the ankles
14:56And dumped them into a deep ravine on the shaded side of the mountain
14:58The heat and the scavengers would take care of the rest
15:00Sushing them
15:01I found the drone remote controller
15:02The drone itself was a nice surprise
15:04Top shelf DJI
15:05With that thing
15:06I could cover a 5km radius around the base
15:08Back inside
15:09I wiped down the controller with alcohol
15:10Crisis handled
15:12But that flash of green had been way too visible
15:14Those two bodies though
15:15Best warning sign
15:16I could have put up
15:17Done swatting flies outside
15:18You turned my attention back to the city
15:19Through the back door I planted in their system months ago
15:21I tapped into the security cameras of Blake's building
15:23Day 7 without water or power
15:25Through those massive floor-to-ceiling windows
15:26The scene inside was rough
15:28That so-called Riverview luxury penthouse
15:29All glass walls
15:30Had become a giant convection oven
15:31Not a single angle safe from direct sunlight all day long
15:34Vanessa was slumped on the floor
15:35Her once pampered skin caked in dried sweat
15:37Her designer pajamas crusted over with a white layer of salt
15:40And the filler in her face had warped from the heat
15:42The vase on the table was knocked over
15:44The stale water inside licked clean
15:46Blake was hunched over an empty water bottle
15:48Trying to collect his own pee
15:49Who hesitated, hands shaking
15:51But the thirst had stripped away every last shred of dignity
15:53This was the penthouse they took from me
15:54It had become an actual hell on earth
15:56I was watering the lettuce on my hydroponic rack
15:58Just enjoying the satisfying little drip of water
16:00When the phone I'd silenced so nobody could bother me lit up
16:03Two words on the screen
16:04Blake Donovan
16:05I took my sweet time washing my hands
16:07Dried them all
16:07Picked up and hit speaker while I was at it
16:09Ivy, Ivy please help me
16:11Blake's voice was wrecked
16:12Like sandpaper dragged across concrete
16:13I know you have a way
16:14You had to have stopped water
16:15We were married
16:15Doesn't that count for anything?
16:17In the background
16:18Vanessa's weak little sobs filtered through
16:20Ivy, I was wrong
16:20Just one sip of water please
16:22I'll do anything for you after this
16:23Listening to these two absolutely lose it
16:25I felt nothing
16:26Just the clean, satisfying rush of a long overdue win
16:28I picked up the scissors and snipped the dead leaf off the lettuce
16:30And said, real casual
16:31Oh, you're thirsty?
16:33Since you're that desperate
16:34Remember that jade necklace you took from me?
16:36That was a family heirloom
16:37If you two swallow it
16:38I'll think about getting you a bottle of water
16:40Silence on the other end for a few seconds
16:42Like they genuinely couldn't process
16:43I'd ask
16:43I thought it was just trash talk
16:45Turns out when survival's on the line
16:47People will hit rock bottom fast
16:48Then through the phone came a full on brawl
16:50And the woman screaming
16:51Blake, are you insane?
16:54That's a rock, I'll choke
16:55You'd swallow it
16:55She said she'd give water
16:57You want to die of thirst?
16:58You are the one who said you'd do anything
16:59Then came the sound of something heavy hitting the floor
17:01And Nessa shrieking like she was being strangled
17:03Blake was actually pinning Nessa down
17:05Forcing her to swallow that cold hard jade necklace
17:07I watched the blurry shadows on the security feed
17:09Two people who once swore they'd love each other forever
17:11Now going at it like feral animals
17:13So this is true love?
17:14One half bottle of water
17:15And it's worth absolutely nothing
17:16I got bored of the whole circus
17:18And just hung up
17:19I knew they weren't gonna die
17:20The human survival instinct is a terrifying thing
17:22And this was only the beginning
17:23No water, no food
17:24And they still had energy
17:25To fight each other
17:26Meaning they weren't desperate enough yet
17:27I'd wait until they were
17:28Drowning their own mess
17:29Begging on their knees like the worms they were
17:31Outside the world
17:32Was basically a functioning hell
17:34Sufa's tents had blown past 140 degrees Fahrenheit
17:36But down near 20 meters underground
17:37The thermostat read a cozy 75 degrees Fahrenheit
17:39The ventilation system hummed at its lowest setting
17:42Just enough white noise to actually feel calming
17:45To celebrate successfully flushing
17:47All two spies today
17:48And to celebrate Blake finally showing his true colors
17:50I decided I absolutely deserved a treat
17:52I swung open the heavy sealed door
17:53The cold storage
17:54And the chill hit me instantly
17:55Picked out a prime M9 grade Australian white uribeye
17:58Fought
17:58Then just a little flake sea salt
18:00And fresh cracked black pepper
18:01Cast iron screaming hot
18:02Butter melting in
18:03That sizzle echoing through the quiet dining room
18:04Like the Maillard reaction was personally healing my soul
18:06The smell of seared beef hit the whole room
18:08I took a 1982 Lafitte off the rack
18:11Let it breathe for 30 minutes
18:12Deep red swirling in the crystal glass
18:14Warm amber mood lighting all around
18:15I sliced into the perfectly seared juicy beef
18:18And put it in my mouth
18:19The fat just melted on my tongue
18:21And the satisfaction hit my whole body at once
18:22Right now I wasn't just eating steak
18:24I was having my dignity back
18:26The contrast was everything
18:27Chou chaos outside
18:28Chou shun level peace inside
18:29And it locked in one belief for me
18:31Nobody gets to wreck my life
18:33Not this time
18:33You reach for my plate
18:35I cut off your hand
18:36No hesitation
18:37Fat and satisfied
18:38I patched into the spotty local network
18:40To see just how far gone the outside world was
18:42The residence group chat for Blake's building
18:44Had completely imploded
18:44All that civilized polite society energy
18:46Gone
18:46Morals
18:47Laws
18:47Social contract
18:48All of it
18:48Torched
18:49Someone started organizing a so-called mutual aid squad
18:50Which was just a fancy name for an armed robbery crew
18:52We targeted single women and elderly folks
18:53And were openly discussing which doors were easiest to break into
18:55And right there in the latest member list
18:57Blake's name
18:58For survival
18:58For self-preservation
18:59This guy who used to walk around calling himself an elite
19:01Always preaching ethics
19:02Had finally ripped off the mask
19:03Then someone in the chat dropped a bombshell
19:05Blake
19:05As his entry fee to the crew
19:06Had ratted out Mrs. Bennet next door
19:07Who lived alone
19:08He told them she had two pieces of water her son had sent her
19:10Her lifeline
19:11Reading through the chat logs
19:12I felt physically sick
19:13Mrs. Bennet had always been good to him
19:15Brought him fruit all the time
19:16This was Blake
19:17Last life he sold me out to Nessa for half a bottle of water
19:20So selling out a neighbor
19:21Barely a warm-up
19:22He wasn't human anymore
19:23He was a pure monster
19:24First thing the next morning I got back on
19:26The patchy local network
19:27And saw Blake had posted something
19:28And he hadn't blocked me
19:30The photo was clearly posed for maximum impact
19:32Who was gripping a baseball bag with dark red stains on it
19:34Two unopened cases of water sitting at his feet
19:36His eyes had this unhinged
19:38Feral
19:38Look to them
19:39Those were his trophies
19:39From robbing Mrs. Bennet
19:40Two cases of water paid for with one person's life
19:42Word was that a sweet
19:43Gentle old woman
19:44Had he shot down the stairs by Blake
19:45When she tried to fight back
19:46Blake didn't have an ounce of guilt
19:48He was actually proud of it
19:49People were hiding him up as a tough guy
19:50And someone even nominated him to be for captain
19:51Reading all that praise on the screen
19:53I let out a cold laugh
19:55Blake thought he'd become a warlord
19:56Who was just
19:56A short-sighted idiot
19:58Two cases of water in this kind of heat
20:00How long does that buy you?
20:01Three days
20:01Five
20:02In an apocalypse where productivity has hit absolute zero
20:04Burning through your stash is inevitable
20:05And he was out here laobay showing off his violence and his supplies
20:07Basically lighting a torch in the middle of a pitch black forest
20:10His little power trip was just a dying flicker before the end
20:12Tall puppies get cut
20:14Those desperate people out
20:15It would be at his door
20:16I was about to close my laptop and hit the gym
20:19When the pin post on the local survival forum
20:21Caught my eye like a knife
20:24The title was bold, red, and screaming
20:26In the world where rats were starving
20:29Ten boxes of instant noodles was basically a winning lottery ticket
20:32I traced the poster's IP in about three seconds
20:34And shocker
20:34It was Blake's neighborhood
20:36My stomach dropped
20:37And something cold and sharp took its place
20:39So they burned through those two
20:40Stolen water cases
20:41Or that glass greenhouse
20:42Finally
20:43Cooked them a lot
20:44Blake suddenly remembered
20:45The worthless dirt plot
20:47He so generously dumped
20:48Last life he robbed me straight up
20:50This time he got clever
20:51Using the internet and human greed as his weapon
20:53The replies were already dripping with desperation and hunger
20:55Classic Blake
20:56Getting other people to do his dirty work
20:57Trouble was coming
20:58Big trouble
20:59I stared at the screen
21:00And a slow, ugly smile crept across my face
21:02My fingers tapped the desk quiet and steady
21:04Oh, you wanna come?
21:05Come on then
21:05You're walking into this with your eyes open
21:07So don't cry when I turn this place into your graveyard
21:09My trap grid has been sitting there
21:10Bored and hungry
21:11Just waiting for some greedy idiots to feed it
21:13The riots had totally spiraled out of control
21:15With gunshots, explosions, and screaming
21:17Stitching together a death soundtrack every night
21:19Blake and Nessa finally figured out the glass penthouse
21:22Wasn't livable anymore
21:23They any longer
21:23And
21:24You're either roasted or eaten by a mob
21:26Through the last working traffic cam at the intersection
21:27I caught their whole escape prep on camera
21:29The Range Rover was packed
21:31To the roof
21:32And Blake, genius that he is
21:34Threw in one spare gas can
21:35But multiple cases of red wine in the trunk
21:36Gotta keep the vibes right
21:37Even during the apocalypse
21:38Nessa tossed Blake's entire box of books
21:40Out one by one
21:41And swapped them for a stab
21:43Of limited edition Hermes bags
21:44And a few oak couture gowns
21:46That would cause heat stroke
21:47She clearly thought this was
21:48A vacation
21:49Or maybe she was
21:49Already planning my funeral
21:51Watching her kick those books off the car
21:52With a look of pure contempt
21:54I actually laughed out loud
21:55In this world a book can start a fire
21:57Wipe your ass
21:58Or block the wind
21:59What a silk gown is literally only good as kindling
22:03These two absolute idiots
22:04Even with a hundred reincarnations
22:05Couldn't fix the factory defect inside their skulls
22:06Their escape went sideways faster than expected
22:08Not even 12 miles out
22:10The tires blew on the melting asphalt
22:12The road had literally liquefied
22:13Ground temp hitting 176 degrees Fahrenheit
22:15Hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk
22:16No check
22:17No spare
22:18No one coming to help
22:19They had to ditch the car and walk
22:20Through the scattered public hands still running
22:22I watched the whole disaster unfold
22:24Death race on above
22:25Tar pit below
22:26Every single step was a full body effort
22:28Just to peel their shoes free
22:29Souls literally smoking
22:31The roadside was lined with heat mummified bodies
22:33Some still half alive
22:34Moaning
22:34Reaching out like dried twigs
22:36Begging for help
22:37Blake kept his eyes forward
22:38And dragged Nessa along
22:39Refusing to look
22:39Nessa's pricey surgically enhanced face
22:41Was already peeling under the UV assault
22:43Bright red and bubbling with blisters
22:45She was sobbing
22:46Screaming
22:46She wanted to go home
22:47And Blake
22:48Out of patience
22:49Slapped her hard
22:50She bled from the lip
22:51He said
22:51Shut up
22:52Or stay here and feed the dogs
22:53A two hour drive
22:54Took them two full days on foot
22:56Cutting back down
22:57After setting the traps
22:57I heard fate whimpering from a patch of dead grass
23:00Pushed to the side
23:01Found a massive Tibetan mastiff
23:03Skin and bones
23:04Broken chains still around its neck
23:06Fur rotting where the metal had dug in
23:08Clearly dumped by illness who bailed
23:10Barely alive
23:10Couldn't even lift its head
23:12In the world where people eat each other
23:13Humans are scarier than any beast
23:15Animals are way more loyal
23:16Something in me cracked a little
23:17I mixed a bowl of porridge
23:18With water and antibiotics
23:19And set it down
23:20It lapped it up like its life depended on it
23:21Tongue chasing every single grain of rice
23:23Then actual tears rolled out of its eyes
23:24Didn't expect that to be a whole rescue operation
23:27Three days later
23:27It stood up
23:28Still shaky
23:29But that black coat had a shine to it now
23:31And the build
23:31Absolutely intimidating
23:32It followed me everywhere
23:33Totally devoted
23:34Anyone who can near
23:35You got a deep
23:36Slow growl from the chest
23:37I named him Onyx
23:38My first line of biological defense
23:40His nose beats any security camera
23:42His teeth beat any trap
23:43In this apocalypse
23:44He's the only one I trust to watch my back
23:46Day 5
23:47Moon
23:47The air itself was basically on fire
23:49Blake and Nessa finally showed up
23:50At the base of the mountain
23:51Their designer outfits had become glorified rags
23:54Kicked in dirt and dry blood
23:55Lips cracked like old bark
23:56Eyes completely vacant
23:58But then
23:59They looked up and spotted the bunker entrance
24:01I disguised as a trash heap
24:02And their eyes lit up like feral animals
24:05They caught that
24:06Tiny leak of cool air drifting out
24:08Ivy Ivy
24:09Blake
24:09Screamed
24:10Flawing his way up on all fours
24:12Fingers digging into the dirt
24:13I'm your husband
24:14I'm here for you
24:15We're family
24:16Open up
24:16I need to talk to you
24:18His voice bounced around the empty valley
24:19Sharp and gross
24:20He was testing me
24:21Psyching himself up
24:22Trying to pull rank using our old dynamic
24:24I stood at my hidden lookout
24:25Cold coconut water in hand
24:27Straw in it and everything
24:28Just watching them
24:29Come to get me
24:29More like
24:30Come to take me
24:31Out and steal my spot
24:32Genuinely nauseating
24:33They charged up the hill
24:34Zero hesitation
24:35Totally clueless about what was hiding in that dead grass
24:37Nessa was first
24:38Done with the heat
24:39Done with running
24:40She wanted first dits on that cool air
24:42Snap
24:42That crisp metallic click rang out across the hillside
24:45Followed immediately by a blood-curdling scream
24:48Ah
24:48My leg
24:49My leg is broken
24:50Nessa hit the ground hard
24:52Right leg locked in a giant bear trap
24:54Rusted teeth sank straight to the bone
24:56Blood everywhere instantly
24:57She was riding in the dirt
24:58Wound getting filthier by the second
25:00Blake
25:00Right behind her
25:01Froze
25:01His first move wasn't to help
25:03It was to scramble backwards two steps
25:05So he wouldn't be next
25:06True love
25:07Everybody
25:07Real ride or die stuff
25:09I picked up the mic
25:10Connected to the external speakers
25:11Voice ice cold across the valley
25:12Private property
25:13Trespassers get deleted
25:14Take one more step forward
25:15And the next trap won't catch your light
25:17It'll catch your throat
25:18I watched them freak out down there
25:19It took a long sip of coconut water
25:21Ice cold
25:22Absolutely perfect
25:23Only after checking there were no more traps
25:24Did Blake finally stop
25:26He looked at Nessa bleeding out
25:27And rolling in pain
25:28Then at the sealed iron door
25:30And figured brute force wasn't gonna cut it
25:31Then he dropped to his knees
25:32On the scorching gravel with a thud
25:34And started kowtowing
25:35Forehead hitting the ground
25:36Until it bled
25:37Mixing with sweat
25:38Ivy
25:38Babe
25:39I know you're in there
25:40We were married
25:41That's gotta count for something
25:42Even if I messed up
25:43Nessa's innocent
25:44She's just a helpless woman
25:45Her leg is broken
25:45She'll get infected
25:46And die without treatment
25:47You've gotta have medicine in there
25:48Please just open up
25:49And give us a little
25:49Even just some water
25:50Full tears
25:51Full snot
25:51Oscar worthy
25:52Performance honestly
25:53Like he was the victim
25:54And I was some cold-blooded executioner
25:56He was banking on guilt
25:57Betting I
25:57Still had feelings
25:58Betting I'd go soft
26:00Bad bet
26:01Last life
26:01When they slit my wrist
26:02And drained me dry
26:02Whatever conscience I had left
26:04Drained out with it
26:05I watched his little show
26:06With zero emotion
26:06Just disgust
26:07Oh
26:08Now we're invoking marriage
26:09When you were chugging my blood
26:10Did you think of me as your wife then
26:12When you left me on that balcony to die
26:13Where was all that love
26:14Watching them nearly dehydrate was fun
26:16But I decided to upgrade the experience a little
26:18I ran the pipe out through the top
26:20Ventilation shaft
26:21And aimed it right at their spot
26:22Turned the valve
26:23Crystal clear water can pour in doubt
26:25A gorgeous shumling curtain
26:26Riking fungal thump
26:27It hit the scorching rocks
26:28With a satisfying hiss
26:29A little cloud of steam rising up instantly
26:31The smell of wet earth drifting through the air
26:34For two people basically mummifying alive
26:36This wasn't torture
26:37It was psychological slow death
26:39Blake and Nessa's eyes went completely blank
26:41Mouths open
26:41Desperately lapping at muddy water off the ground
26:43Nessa didn't even register her leg anymore
26:45Dragging the trap behind her
26:47Tongue pressed against burning rock
26:49Chasing every last drop
26:50I shut the valve
26:51Water stopped
26:52Dead silence
26:53One song
26:53My voice came through the speaker
26:55Dripping with amusement
26:56Both of them nodding frantically
26:57Pure desperation in their eyes
26:59Then let's play a game
27:00Slap each other
27:01While this slap wins a cup of water
27:03Ready?
27:03Go!
27:04One second of violence
27:05Just the hot wind
27:06Smack!
27:07Blake didn't hesitate
27:08Wound up his whole arm
27:09And cracked Nessa clean across the face
27:11Nessa hit the ground
27:12Blood at the corner of her mouth
27:13Totally stunned
27:14The cheeks swelling up in real time
27:16You actually hit me!
27:17Nessa shrieked
27:18All that love in her eyes
27:19Curdling into pure venom
27:20Crack!
27:21She clawed back
27:22Nails dragging three deep bloody lines
27:24Down Blake's face
27:26You absolute bitch
27:26If you hadn't thrown out my books
27:28Would we even be in this mess?
27:29This is all on you
27:30You're just useless
27:31Couldn't find supplies to save your life
27:33If I were you, I'd just die already
27:34They weren't at it
27:35Every fit landing solid
27:36Blake had the weight
27:37Advantage
27:38Pinned her down
27:38And punched
27:40Nessa went for the eyes
27:41And bit his ear
27:42I filmed the whole thing on my phone
27:44Half a cup of water
27:45And the great love story just dissolved
27:47Every ugly thing underneath finally showing
27:49Ten minutes later
27:49They were both racked
27:50Flat on the ground
27:51Gasping
27:51I kept my word
27:52And tossed something out the window
27:54An expired bottle of medicated oil
27:55Drink up
27:56Clears the head right up
27:57Good stuff
27:57Don't waste
27:58Blake picked up that rolling bottle
28:00With shaking hands
28:01Cracked it open
28:02One sniff
28:03And yeah
28:03He knew
28:04He looked up
28:05Eyes gone cold and calculating
28:07He'd been played
28:08Didn't matter how much
28:09He begged or bled
28:10That door was never opening
28:11Rush it
28:12He glanced at the bear trap
28:13Still locked around Nessa's leg
28:14Nope
28:15Not that brave
28:15So he pried the trap off with both hands
28:17Face like a thunder cloud
28:18Ignored every scream
28:19Grab Nessa
28:20And limped the both of them
28:22Back down to the base
28:22There was an abandoned mine shack down there
28:24Dark damp
28:25Full of bad droppings
28:26But just enough shade to not die instantly
28:28They didn't leave
28:28Blake stopped at the entrance
28:30And looked back up at me
28:31No more begging
28:32Just cold
28:32Calculating malice
28:33He was waiting for an opening
28:35Or backup
28:36That look said he'd burn everything down
28:37Just to take me with him
28:38Classic
28:39If he can't have it
28:40Nobody can
28:40I knew this wasn't over
28:41We were barely past the opening credits
28:43Didn't care
28:44In this fortress I built from scratch
28:45I'm the final boss
28:46You want to play?
28:47Let's go
28:48I'll see how long you last
28:49In a cave with no food
28:50And nothing but despair
28:51I knew Blake couldn't be trusted
28:53That look he gave wasn't just for show
28:55Next evening
28:56The infrared alarm tripped
28:58On the monitors
28:59A thick black smoke column rose from the base of the mountain
29:01Cutting straight up into the still air
29:03Signal fire
29:04He was calling for backup
29:05Sure enough
29:06A crew showed up
29:07Armed with machetes and shotguns
29:08The one leading them had a scar across his face
29:11Built like a wall
29:12Eyes like a shark
29:13Gnome raiders
29:14The nastiest crew operating in the area
29:16Blake leant out to meet them
29:17Leg wound and all
29:18Pointing up at my mountain
29:20That gross little smile plastered on his face
29:22One look at Scar's expression
29:23And you could fill in the pitch yourself
29:24Supplies up there
29:25Unlimited water
29:26Lone woman living solo
29:27Blake didn't hesitate for a second
29:28Sold me out completely to settle the score
29:30He wanted this place turned into a slaughterhouse
29:32Me as the main event
29:33Classic Blake
29:34Honestly
29:35When survival's on the line
29:36Everyone else is expendable
29:37This crew was different though
29:39Not the average desperate stragglers
29:40These guys came prepared
29:41Scar was careful
29:42Pulled a black waterproof bag from his pack
29:44Heavy
29:45Landed with a dull thud
29:46From my stocking up days I knew immediately
29:48Either homemade explosives
29:50Or detonators
29:51My stomach dropped
29:52Pongs went cold
29:54My blast door is solid
29:55Could take a truck at full speed
29:57But directional charges
29:58Different story
29:59And the vents were the real weak point
30:00One detonation or a smoke funnel
30:02In there and uncooked
30:03Can't just sit here playing defense
30:05That's a losing strategy
30:06I watched them huddle at the base
30:08Running their plan
30:08Blake pointing around like a tour guide
30:11Sketching out the vents
30:12The entry points
30:13All of it
30:13I tightened my grip on the remote
30:15Knuckles going white
30:16Let me roll out the welcome back
30:17Bye
30:18You wanting so bad
30:19This is my turf
30:19My rules
30:20Time to show them
30:21That some doors aren't entrances
30:23They're a one-way trip
30:25Bold plan
30:26Borderline insane
30:28I suited up in full insulated gear
30:30Strapped on the gas mask
30:31Took a breath
30:32And hit the remote myself
30:33Fierce grinding
30:35The disguised trash heap door rolled open
30:38And they're in the buffer zone
30:39Exactly what I'd staged
30:40Neat stacks of cardboard boxes
30:42A few slashed rice
30:43Bags stealing white grain across the floor
30:46In that golden hour light
30:47It looked like the promised land
30:49The boxes were packed with rocks for weight
30:51The rice was moldy months ago
30:53But from out there
30:54That was hope
30:55That was worth dying for
30:57Once it was set
30:58I slipped back behind the second glass door
31:00And watched through one-way bulletproof glass
31:02Meanwhile
31:03I flicked on the corridor systems
31:04We're already sold in lubricant oil
31:06Their wires on both walls now live at 380 volts
31:09I live a welcome corridor
31:11Direct express to the afterlife
31:13The door's open
31:14It's open
31:15Must be a power failure
31:16Systems down
31:17Blake screamed
31:17Voice cracking with excitement
31:19Pointing at the supplies
31:20Eyes basically leading his skull
31:22Scar blinked
31:23Then lit up completely
31:24Last shred of caution dissolved by pure greed
31:26Boys
31:27God just handed us dinner
31:28Move
31:29Grab everything
31:30Woman's mine
31:31Supplies split even
31:32The whole crew howled and charged up the hill
31:34Blake was first
31:36Limping on that wrecked leg and still leading the pack
31:39He hit the corridor first
31:40Hand almost reaching that stilled rice on the ground
31:42Then his foot slipped
31:44He went down hard
31:45Completely lost it
31:46And rolled all the way to the drainage pit
31:48At the end of the corridor
31:49Pit I pre-dug
31:50Bottom line with rusty irons
31:52The scream was genuinely horrific
31:54But it barely carried before the mob flooding in behind him
31:56Drowned it out
31:57The five raiders right behind Blake
31:59Didn't fare much better
32:01They piled up on the slick floor in a human heap
32:03Weapons flying everywhere
32:05Cursing, scrambling to get up
32:07Palms and bodies hitting the electrified walls and floor grid
32:09That's when I calmly
32:11Pulled the red switch
32:12Biz sit
32:13Blue arcs crackled through the narrow corridor
32:16Bodies convulsing
32:17Foaming
32:18Eyes rolling back
32:20Skin visibly blackening and charring by the second
32:22Burnt hair and ozone filling the air
32:24Industrial voltage not messing around
32:26Scar at the back reacted fast
32:28Slammed the brakes
32:29Even grabbed the guy next to him as a human shield
32:31Still caught the edge of the arc
32:33Got launched backwards
32:34Slammed into the ground outside
32:35Hair standing straight up
32:37Pull back
32:37Now
32:38It's a trap
32:39Electric
32:40He screamed in full panic
32:41Crawling out on all fours
32:42Scar made it out alive
32:44But lost more than half his crew
32:45Humiliation plus fear plus rage
32:47Brain fully offline
32:50Nessa
32:50Leg wrecked
32:51Was dead last
32:51Dragging herself along
32:52Catching her breath against a rock
32:53Scar grabbed her by the hair and yanked
32:56Donked her in front of whatever was left of this guy
32:58You think you can trap me?
33:00This is your great spot?
33:01My brothers are dead because of you
33:03Boys
33:03She's yours
33:04Make it hurt
33:05For the ones we lost
33:06Nessa screamed
33:07Fought back
33:08Nothing working
33:08Screaming Blake's name over and over
33:10Against a bunch of guys
33:11Who'd lost everything
33:12She had zero leverage
33:13I muted that feed
33:15Just watched the screen
33:16Cold
33:16Meanwhile in the spike pit
33:18Blake was in the corner
33:19Hand clamped over his own mouth
33:21Curled into a ball
33:22Not making a sound
33:22To survive
33:23He threw Nessa away
33:24Again
33:24Again
33:25The survivors weren't ready to quit
33:26Too proud to walk away empty
33:28They tried lighting
33:29Wet grass and half burnt branches
33:31Smoke rolling in
33:32Their plan
33:33Choked me out
33:33My internal air circulation
33:35System had been running for hours
33:36Nice try
33:36Night fell
33:37I strapped on
33:37Military IR night vision
33:39Everything went that creepy glowing green
33:41Reached into the cabinet
33:42For my personal collection of Molotov cocktails
33:43Custom batch
33:44High proof liquor
33:44Gasoline
33:45Dissolve foam
33:46I climbed silently to the top
33:47Hidden observation point
33:48And watched through the firing slit
33:50You guys love fire so much
33:52Let me upgrade that for you
33:53I zeroed in on the center of
33:54Their little campfire huddle
33:55And threw the first bottle hard
33:56It cut a clean arc through the dark
34:00Glass shattering into the silence
34:02Like a gunshot
34:03Apocalypse heat means everything
34:05Around us was basically kindling
34:06Where dry as a bone
34:07Molotov cocktails were the perfect match
34:09Fire swallowed their camp hole
34:11Corpses and all
34:13Fire
34:14We're on fire
34:15Some of them became human torches
34:17Sprinting through the flames
34:18Screaming
34:19Slapping themselves
34:20Just spreading it further
34:22Scarfully ablaze
34:23Something clicked
34:24And he made a
34:25Desperate run for the water pipe
34:26He remembered the water
34:27Only way out
34:28Hands shaking
34:29Twisted the valve open
34:30Aimed it at himself
34:32Praying it would put him out
34:33What came out wasn't water
34:35It was high octane gasoline
34:36I pumped in under pressure
34:38Boom
34:39Fuel hits open flames
34:40Instant flashover
34:41Scar became a fireball
34:43The explosion swallowed his scream whole
34:45He hit the ground rolling
34:46Went still slowly
34:47Turned to char
34:48Nothing left
34:49But the sound of fat crackling
34:50The whole base of the mountain
34:51Was a sea of fire
34:52Lighting up the pitch black sky
34:53The fire burned all night
34:55Gying out just around dawn
34:57Air thick with gasoline
34:58Char
34:59And dead body smell
35:01Raiders
35:01Gone
35:02Nessa
35:03Nowhere
35:03I suited up in full heavy gear
35:05Dry powder extinguisher in one hand
35:07Long handle tongs in the other
35:09Time to clean up
35:10When I got to the spike pit
35:12I noticed something
35:13Moving under the pile of charred bodies
35:15I raised an eyebrow
35:16Nudge the top layer of crispy raiders aside
35:18Blake
35:19This cockroach actually survived
35:21A puddle at the pit bottom broke his fall
35:23Lucky him
35:23Not a single patch of skin intact
35:25One eye swollen to a slit
35:27He heard my footsteps and forced his head up
35:29Staring at me through that one cloudy eye
35:32Making this low rattling noise in his throat
35:33Nothing in that look but pure bottomless hatred
35:36Ivy
35:36I'm going to kill you
35:37I didn't kill Blake
35:38One clean cut
35:39Way too easy
35:40I dragged him out of the body pile
35:42His red form leaving the dark green streak across the ground
35:45Used the same heavy chain
35:46That used to hold onyx
35:47Locked it around his neck
35:48The cold metal making him flint
35:50I set him up in the buffer zone
35:52Between door one and the blast door
35:54No sun
35:55No rain
35:55But also no exit
35:57Every day
35:58One bowl of sour slop
35:59The occasional moldy bread crust
36:00I needed him alive
36:01Watching me eat well and thrive
36:03Every second a reminder of
36:05Exactly how badly he lost
36:06Also
36:07His face is
36:08The best alarm system
36:09Anyone dumb enough to break him gets
36:11Him as their welcome gift first
36:12Welcome to your new position
36:13My guard dog
36:14I patted his head
36:15Turn and shut the blast door behind me
36:17Ceiling the light
36:17And every last bit of hope on my side
36:19All those tits
36:20And the apocalypse
36:21Stopped pretending
36:22Camps blew past anything humans were built for
36:24Even cacti gave up and turned to ash
36:27Asphalt didn't just melt
36:29It started off gassing toxic black smoke
36:31The indoor thermometer crept up past 82 degrees Fahrenheit
36:34And then
36:35The ground water started dropping
36:37Miserably
36:38Tabs running thinner
36:39Pumps draining with that dry wine
36:41I had to fire up the expensive
36:42Closed loop water filtration system
36:44Starting now
36:45Shower water
36:46Vegetable rinse water
36:47All of it gets recycled
36:48Every drop worth more than gold
36:50Zero waste
36:51Meanwhile
36:51Gui Khao Sai
36:52Hadn had water in two days
36:53On the monitor
36:54I watched him flat on the concrete floor
36:56Dehydration had stripped out whatever was left of his humanity
36:58Body shaking
36:59Blackened
37:00Swollen tongue out
37:01Licking his own urine off the ground
37:03To stay alive
37:04Even one more second
37:05He'd let go of every last shred of dignity
37:07And gone full animal
37:08On top of the heat that could cook you
37:09Plague showed up too
37:10The city below was stacked with uncleared bodies
37:13At these temperatures
37:15With everything baking and evaporating
37:16The whole city became one massive petri dish
37:18Ancient and mutated viruses
37:19And bacteria going absolutely wild
37:21E-stroke
37:21Cholera
37:22Plate
37:22Death in every cubic inch of air
37:24Even from kilometers away
37:26That distinctive sweet rot stench of decomposing bodies
37:28Drifted up the mountain on the hot wind
37:30Seeping into every crack in the rock
37:32One whiff and your stomach turns itself inside out
37:35I sealed every external vent immediately
37:37Not a single gap left open
37:39Then kicked down the backup internal oxygen loop
37:41And the industrial grade air purifier at max setting
37:43Machinery hummy
37:44And the air inside went clean again
37:46From here on out
37:47This fortress is
37:48A fully sealed independent ecosystem
37:50Cut off from everything
37:51Outside isn't just a heat apocalypse anymore
37:53It's a bio one too
37:54Anyone out there who dares pull
37:55Off their mask for one breath
37:57Gets those pathogens straight into their lungs
37:58Slow and painful exit guaranteed
38:00Just when I thought NASA was ash
38:03She came back
38:04But what showed up on the security feed
38:05Was not a person
38:06This was something that crawled out of hell
38:08Most of her skin had carbonized
38:10Hair completely gone
38:12She somehow survived the fire
38:14And now ran purely on one setting
38:16Hunt
38:17She clawed her way back up
38:18The mountain
38:19And into the buffer zone
38:20Those cloudy
38:21Inside out eyes
38:22Locked onto Blake
38:23Chained in the corner
38:25Pure starvation had wiped her mind clean
38:27Just a low growl in her throat
38:28She didn't recognize her beloved
38:30Just saw fresh meat
38:32She lunged
38:32Shockingly fast
38:33And bit a chunk clean out of Blake's thigh
38:36His scream punched straight through the blast door
38:39Echoing underground
38:40He stared at this wrecking thing in front of him
38:42Unable to connect her to that precious
38:44Delicate girl he'd once put on a pedestal
38:46He simply could not process it
38:47I was parked in front of the security monitor
38:48Fresh ground coffee in hand
38:50Still steaming
38:51Watching this horror show unfold
38:52And I laughed
38:53Like
38:54Actually cried laughing
38:55Kamas got incredible timing
38:56Last life
38:57I was their personal blood bag
38:59Caged up
39:00Kept alive just to fuel them
39:02This life roles reversed
39:03Blake became Nessa's meal
39:04Getting mauled by the woman
39:06He once would've died for
39:07Watching Blake thrash on the ground
39:09Trying to kick off a feral Nessa
39:11Dark green fluid spreading across the floor
39:13I set down my coffee
39:14Walked over to the feeding slot in the inner door
39:15Clank
39:16I tossed in a rusty serrated boning knife
39:19The one I used to use on expired meat
39:21Want to live?
39:22I sat through the interpump
39:23That flat
39:23Zero warmth in my voice
39:25Simple rules
39:25Whoever kills the other one
39:27Gets a cold can of coke
39:29One can
39:29Winner drinks
39:31Both of them froze mid-struggle
39:33They looked up at that dark little slot
39:35And in their heads
39:37That coke
39:37Was the holiest thing on earth
39:39Not a second of hesitation
39:40Zero
39:42Blake grabbed the boning knife off the ground
39:43Didn't even flinch
39:45When the blade sliced his palm open
39:46Nessa threw herself at his throat
39:48Fingernails digging deep into his flesh
39:50Thud
39:50The dull sound of steel finding meat
39:52Blake put everything he had left
39:54Into driving the knife into Nessa's chest
39:56Once, twice, three times
39:58Dark green splattered across his face
39:59But he did not stop
40:00Not until Nessa went completely still
40:02Those venom-filled eyes frozen open
40:03Staring straight through him
40:04Blake shoved the body off
40:05And crawled to the gate
40:06Face soaked in blood
40:07Those charred hands locked around the iron bars
40:09Eyes blazing with something feral and unhinged
40:12Coke
40:12Give me the coke
40:13I killed her
40:13I won
40:14I pulled out an open can
40:15And right in front of him
40:17Slowly poured it onto the concrete
40:18Maybe three inches from the bars
40:19Dark liquid bubbling on the ground
40:20Sweet smell drifting up
40:22Lick it clean
40:23Blake pressed his face to the floor
40:24Dust and dark green fluid and all
40:26Frantically lapping up that gritty cola
40:28Letting out the satisfied
40:29Broken
40:30Wimper
40:30That's when the old radio
40:32Nothing but static for weeks
40:33Crackled to life with a human voice
40:36This is
40:37Coalition government
40:37Shelter number seven
40:38All survivors please note
40:39Proceed immediately to the west side of the city
40:41Large underground shelter
40:42We will provide
40:43Food and water
40:44So the government finally showed up
40:45Two months into the apocalypse
40:46They'd converted existing civil defense tunnels
40:48into one big shelter
40:49But I knew exactly what that meant
40:51I'd been to a place like that in my last life
40:53Hundreds of thousands crammed together
40:55Strict hierarchy
40:56Resources locked up top
40:57Regular people shoved into the bottom bunks
41:00It was a slave camp with better branding
41:01Easy to get in
41:02Nearly impossible to leave
41:03I turned off the radio without expression
41:05Cutting off that very tempting voice
41:06I had my own kingdom
41:08I wasn't about to be anyone's bottom bunk
41:09And I definitely wasn't taking handouts
41:11A group of survivors passed by the mountain base
41:13Loaded down
41:13Half star
41:14Clothes basically dissolving off their bodies
41:16Clearly headed for the government shelter
41:17After hearing the broadcast
41:19A few of them spotted the hint of green up the slope
41:22And got ideas
41:23Armed with sticks and rocks
41:25They crept up to the first gate
41:26But the second they looked through the bars
41:28At what was inside
41:29Every single one of them lost it
41:31There was a creature covered in dark green fluid
41:33Skin charred and rotting face down on the ground
41:35Gnawing on a decomposing corpse
41:37It heard them
41:37Blake's head snapped up
41:39That one eye blazing
41:40A guttural growl rising from his chest
41:42Monster!
41:43There's a monster eating people!
41:44Run!
41:44He screamed
41:45Truth over each other
41:46And fled down the mountain
41:47Without looking back once
41:48Blake's horror show just handled
41:50A whole security threat for me
41:52And that is his only
41:53Remaining purpose
41:54Scarecrow
41:55Outside
41:55People were starving
41:57Treating kids for food like it was normal
41:58Meanwhile my underground farm
42:00Bathe in purple growl lights
42:01Was hitting its first real harvest
42:02Climate control
42:03Custom nutrient solution
42:04The whole setup
42:06And the sweet potatoes on
42:07The hydroponic racks were absolutely thriving
42:09I pulled on my cotton gloves
42:11And carefully dug out a pile of fist-sized sweet potato
42:13Red skin
42:14Yellow flesh
42:15Still damp with soil
42:16Smelling like actual earth
42:17Which I hadn't smelled in forever
42:18In this apocalypse
42:19This pile could start a 100% riot
42:21That night I air fried two of them
42:23Then slow cooked the thick sweet potato congee
42:25I even tried fermenting the leftover
42:27Start into a jar of homemade wine
42:29Low proof
42:30But actual grain alcohol
42:31Peeled back the crispy skin
42:33To reveal soft steaming golden flesh inside
42:35Caramel juice running down my fingers
42:37One bite
42:37Straight up sweet
42:39That deep
42:39Carb low dissatisfaction
42:41Hitting in a way no synthetic food ever could
42:43I mixed on in a bowl with mashed sweet potato
42:44And canned wanchon meat
42:45Fancy
42:46One human
42:47One dog
42:48Deep underground
42:48Listening to the wind
42:49How outside
42:50Lending our absolute best lives
42:52Turns out
42:53Heavy enough food
42:53Doesn't fix
42:54Avoid eating a brain
42:56Weeks of isolation
42:57Zero human contact
42:58No social media noise
43:00Just silence so thick it had weight
43:02I started feeling this deep
43:03Bone level loneliness
43:05Sometimes it hit harder than hunger
43:07I catch myself talking to the mirror
43:09Repeating random sentences over and over
43:11Just to confirm I still could
43:13I'd stare at the ceiling for hours
43:14Completely zoned out
43:15No idea if it was day or night
43:17Mental health
43:18I realized was just as critical as physical
43:20If my mind went
43:21The bunker meant nothing
43:21I'd crack before the heat got me
43:23So I forced myself onto a schedule
43:26Two hours of working out every day
43:28Full sweat
43:28Dopamine vs depression
43:30Round 1
43:30I dug out the box of books
43:31Blake had tossed away
43:32Read every word out loud
43:33One by one
43:34I started talking to Onyx like a person
43:36Named every lettuce
43:37Every potato
43:38Little green grew a centimeter today
43:40That's my boy
43:40Onyx
43:41This book is genuinely terrible
43:43The author has never seen apocalypse in their life
43:44I'm not just surviving
43:46I'm staying sane while doing it
43:48In this war against loneliness
43:49I refuse to lose
43:50Blake finally gave out
43:52The burns alone had wrecked his body
43:54Then the infected wounds
43:55Then eating Nessa's rotten flesh
43:57His fever spiked hard
43:58He lay on the cold concrete in the buffer zone
44:00Body convulsing every few minutes
44:01Breathing barely there
44:02Right before the end
44:04He had a moment of clarity
44:06He lifted his head toward the security camera on the inner door
44:09One eye leaking cloudy tears
44:10I thought he was going to confess
44:12Apologize
44:13He didn't
44:13In that ragged, barely there voice
44:15Wait
44:15Ivy
44:16I regret it
44:17If only I hadn't
44:18If I hadn't divorced you
44:18Hadn't given you this land
44:19This place would've been mine
44:21I could've ruled this whole area
44:22Had everyone kneeling at my feet
44:23I would've been king
44:24Even dying
44:25His last thought
44:26Isn't what he owed me
44:27It was power
44:28It was greed
44:28What a pathetic
44:29Ridiculous
44:30Infuriating man
44:31One last exhale
44:32And his head dropped
44:34Dead inside his own delusion
44:36Done
44:36Every shred of love and hate
44:38Burned to nothing in the heat
44:39No grief in my chest
44:41Just the clean feeling of taking out the trash
44:43Three days after Blake died
44:44The sword of Damocles finally dropped
44:47The big one hit right on schedule
44:48Months of heat and drought
44:50Had turned the whole city into one giant tinderbox
44:53The air itself was basically lighter fluid
44:55One spark
44:56Maybe dry lightning
44:57Maybe arson
44:58Who knows
44:59And it set off the most insane
45:00Wildfire anyone had ever seen
45:02The wind carried it at terrifying speed
45:03Swallowing the surrounding mountains whole
45:05On the security monitor
45:06The pitch black sky
45:07Had turned solid red
45:09A sea of fire in every direction
45:11Flames licking the clouds
45:12My bunker became a lone island
45:13In an endless ocean of fire
45:15Flames went to town on the rock surface
45:16The outer blast door glowed red hot
45:19Groaning as the metal warped
45:20Even through meters of concrete and rock
45:22I could hear the trees exploding outside
45:24The sound of a world burning alive
45:26Blake's body
45:27Along with the remains of every thug
45:29Who'd come before him
45:30Got swallowed up instantly
45:31No crematorium needed
45:31The fire would handle it
45:33Clean and thorough
45:34Ash to ash
45:34The fire didn't just bring heat
45:36The scarier part was
45:38It was eating all the oxygen
45:39I'd sealed every vent in advance
45:41But hours of intense burning
45:42Had turned the whole area
45:44Into a low pressure dead zone
45:45The oxygen monitor started freaking out
45:47Alarm blaring non-stop
45:48Beep
45:49Warning
45:49Oxygen level below 18%
45:51A heavy suffocating pressure hit me
45:53Chest tight
45:53Couldn't get a full breath
45:54Temples pounding
45:55Dark spots creeping into my vision
45:57Onyx had gone flat on the floor too
45:58Tongue hanging out
45:59Heaving hard with every breath
46:01Eyes glassy and scared
46:02Not messing around with this one
46:04I cracked open the last five
46:05Emergency oxygen canisters
46:06Strapped the rick up mask onto Onyx
46:08Hulled a heavy tank onto my own back
46:10And we pushed deeper into the bunker
46:12Back near the reservoir
46:13High humidity
46:14And the best air reserve in the whole place
46:16We huddled in the dark
46:18Listening to the roar outside
46:19A total coin flip
46:20Either my oxygen runs out first
46:21Or the fire burns itself out first
46:23Every second
46:24Felt like a year
46:26Even with meters of rock
46:27And custom heat insulation panels
46:29At several thousand degrees sustained
46:32Heat finds a way
46:33The thermometer inside
46:34Declined fast and blew past 104 degrees Fahrenheit
46:37Walls were hot to the touch
46:38Air thick and scorching
46:39Every breath felt like inhaling a hair dryer
46:42I held every single ice block out of the cold storage
46:44Piled them around the reservoir
46:45Desperate DIY coolant cysts
46:47They melted embarrassingly fast
46:48Water spreading across the floor
46:49I was soaked head to toe
46:50I couldn't tell if it was sweat or melt water
46:52Running on empty
46:54A straight up endurance race against death
46:56I wiped Onyx down to keep his tab manageable
46:57While keeping my eyes locked on the thermometer
46:59If it climbed any higher
47:00The electronics and circuit systems
47:02Would start shutting down
47:03And then I'd be blind and deaf
47:04Buried alive in an underground cough
47:06But panicking wasn't an option
47:07I drank salted ice water
47:08And forced myself to stay loved
47:09Compared to everything outside
47:11Getting tarbonized instantly
47:12This was practically a spa day
47:13Just had to outlast it
47:14That's the whole game plan
47:15Just when I thought I'd hit my limit in
47:17Was ready to play dead to save energy
47:19The outer door took a massive hit
47:24It whole bunker shook
47:25A dozen chunks of rock
47:27Raining down from the ceiling
47:28Monitors showed a giant mutant boar
47:30Charred black all over
47:31Skin peeling off in strips
47:33The fire had driven it completely feral
47:34And dying
47:35It caught a whiff of cool air
47:36Desperately hunting for
47:38Somewhere to escape the flames
47:39It smashed through the
47:40Already wrecked decoy cover
47:41And blew past the first door
47:42Charging straight into the buffer zone
47:43It headbutted Blake's carbonized skeleton
47:44Clean across the room
47:45Stomped it to powder
47:46Then started going absolutely
47:47Berserk on the blast door
47:48That door was solid
47:49But even it wasn't built
47:50For a dying monster running on pure rage
47:52The frame let out a metallic shriek
47:54Concrete cracking at the joint
47:55That door cannot go down
47:57If it breaks
47:58The fire
47:58The toxic air
47:59The heat all flood in
48:00Everything I've built means nothing
48:02And both Onix and I are done
48:04I dragged my oxygen deprived
48:05Heat wrecked body off the floor
48:07Made it to the firing port
48:09On the inner door
48:09Through the observation window
48:10I could see the boss bloodshot eyes
48:12The massive tusks
48:13Face twisted in pure agony
48:15I pulled out the tricked out
48:16Heavy duty industrial nail gun
48:18Loaded up the extended steel nails
48:19Held it steady with both hands
48:21Deal for renovations
48:22Now doing
48:22Very different work
48:24The bore was still going full sen
48:26Had no idea what was coming
48:27Deep breath of oxygen
48:29Held it
48:30Aimed straight at the ice socket
48:31One muffled shot echoed through the tight space
48:34The nail punched clean through the eye
48:36Straight into the brain
48:37Central nervous system offline
48:39The bore let out one horrible shriek
48:41That massive body just collapsed
48:42Legs spasming hard a few times
48:44Then nothing
48:45Crisis over
48:45I slumped to the floor
48:46Gulping oxygen through the mask
48:48Sweat dripping off my face
48:50Looking at that enormous carcass
48:51I actually laughed
48:52Almost killed me
48:53But honest
48:54Best parting gift nature could have sent
48:56We're having barbie 2 tonight
48:57The fire raged for three full days and nights
48:59Like it had a personal grudge against everything
49:00That ever existed
49:02Oxygen reserves inside were nearly gone
49:04I watched the pressured beige creeping toward the red
49:06And just as I was about to risk
49:08Cracking opened the backup vent
49:09A thunder clap hit like the sky was splitting in half
49:11Boom
49:12The whole underground structure shook
49:14Then came the sound of heavy, relentless pattering
49:16Rain
49:17It was rain
49:18Sure
49:18I knew it was acid rain
49:19Grossive as hell
49:20But right now it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard
49:22Water hit fire
49:23And the whole mountain disappeared in white steam
49:25It killed the blaze
49:25Pulled the temperature
49:26Back down from nightmare levels
49:27The thermometer inside started a slow descent
49:30And that red alarm light finally went dark
49:32I collapsed on the floor and just held onyx
49:34Tears coming whether I wanted them to or not
49:36Made it
49:36Beat death one more time
49:37My home standing
49:38Day after the rain stopped
49:40Temps dropped to around 104 degrees Fahrenheit
49:42Still brutal
49:43But survivable
49:44I suited up in full acid rain gear
49:46Grabbed the detector
49:47And cracked open that long sealed door
49:49Hit immediately by a wall of burned
49:51Chemicals stank
49:52Outside was pure scorched earth
49:54Nothing left
49:54Every tree reduced to black charcoal
49:56Their rock where the mountains used to have a face
49:58Blake
49:59NASA
49:59The boar
50:01All unrecognizable after the fire and acid rain
50:03Officially part of the soil now
50:05Didn't give them a second look
50:06What caught my eye was a tiny flash of green in the rock cracks below
50:09In the middle of all that black and nothing
50:11One stubborn little weed was pushing through the ash
50:13Droplets on its leaves catching the sunlight like tiny diamonds
50:16Life finding a way
50:18Also a pretty good omen
50:19As long as the roots hold
50:20Fire and rain can't finish the job
50:21Green will come back to this wasteland eventually
50:24Same goes for me
50:25Knocked down
50:25Repeatedly
50:26Still here
50:26Humans adapt fast
50:27It's honestly impressive
50:28Once tents hit 104 degrees Fahrenheit
50:30Survivors started crawling out from underground
50:31I loaded up the modded off-roader
50:33Through onyx in
50:34Headed down to the city
50:35The thriving metropolis was now one massive ruin
50:37Collapsed buildings
50:38Burned out car skeletons
50:40Shriveled bodies everywhere
50:41Streets completely empty
50:43Just wind moaning
50:44Shrew the wreckage
50:44Going off memory
50:45I found what used to be Blake's so-called
50:47Luxury complex
50:48That all glass tower was now a blackened skeleton
50:50Every paint shattered or melted
50:52Frozen midrip
50:52Like metal tears
50:53Stuck through the rubble for a while
50:54Finally found the warp
50:55Fire damaged safe
50:56And inside
50:56The half gold
50:57Bar Blake had fought tooth and nail for the last life
50:59And secretly stashed like a treasure
51:00This time around
51:00The gold had melted and re-solidified
51:02Into a twisted lump
51:03Looked like scrap metal
51:04Coated in black ash
51:06Holding that heavy little chunk
51:07I couldn't help but laugh
51:08He wrecked his life
51:09Sold his soul
51:10Betrayed everyone for this thing
51:12Now it's just sitting quietly in the ashes
51:14Worth less than a potato in my pocket
51:16The apocalypse's greatest irony
51:17And his most brutal punchline
51:19Back on the mountain
51:20The official shout to broadcast
51:21Kept moving the recruitment pitch
51:22Didn't move me an inch
51:23I had crystal clear well water
51:25More food than I could eat
51:27A fortress
51:28And most importantly
51:29Total autonomy
51:31But I couldn't sit on this gold mine alone
51:33Use the surplus supplies as fate
51:34And screened a few
51:35Wanderers passing through
51:36The base of the mountain
51:37Most had families in tow
51:38On the sides
51:39Edges worn smooth by the apocalypse
51:41I didn't need slaves
51:42Revolt
51:43I needed people with skin
51:45In the game
51:45I offered clean drinking water
51:47And a daily ration of sweet potatoes and rice
51:49Which to them was basically five-star treatment
51:51In exchange
51:52They cleared farmland at the base
51:54Packed shot the fire damaged outer defenses
51:55And built greenhouse frame
51:57I was the only
51:58Authority here
51:59The one who made the rules
52:00They called me Miss Caldwell
52:01Eyes full of respect and genuine gratitude
52:02Because here
52:03Work equals food
52:04And in a world full of starving people
52:06That's basically a miracle
52:07On this wasteland
52:08I built my own
52:09Micro civilization
52:10No brute looting
52:12No pointless killing
52:13Just leverage
52:14Resources
52:14And the grip on what keeps people alive
52:16My rules
52:17My patch of order carved out of hell
52:19And this patch
52:19It belongs to Ivy Caldwell
52:20The year 2027
52:21New Year's
52:22First light of morning broke through the clouds
52:23And hit the mountaintop
52:24Yielding the whole wasteland in gold
52:26I was in the rocking chair by the bunker entrance
52:28Light blanket across my lap
52:29Onyx was at my feet
52:30Bigger than ever
52:31Soaking up the sun
52:33You're twitching now and then
52:34Hot tea in hand
52:35Steam curling up lazy and slow
52:37I looked out at the valley below
52:38Terraced green farmland
52:39Where there used to be nothing
52:40Workers moving through the rows
52:41Their laughter and the sound of kids
52:43Playing drifting up faintly
52:44The world was still brutal
52:45Still full of unknowns
52:47Maybe a deep freeze next
52:49Maybe earthquakes
52:50But right now
52:50I was alive
52:51And doing it with dignity
52:52And on my own terms
52:53Blake
52:54Nessa
52:54And every single person
52:55Who'd ever come for me
52:56All just us now
52:57Swept away without a trace
52:59And me
53:01Ivy Caldwell
53:01I made something of myself
53:03In the apocalypse
53:03On the map full of dead
53:05Grey silence
53:05This mountain burns
53:06With the light of civilization and hope
53:08And it doesn't go out
Comments