Snork Maiden
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The trail was dark, but that was beneficial, offering better concealment. I figured Charlottesville was about 15 miles or so to Charlottesville I could probably make it by morning but it was going to be difficult keeping of the trails and roads.
The woods offered good concealment also event though they were more like a petrified forest, the trunks and branches barren, tall and dark in the gloom.
In the past people would have navigared by the stars and moon but those were luxuries long since lost since the dusty haze kept shielded the celestial map from my eyes. The furs felt warm and snug and the hood keeped my ears warm and muffed the cruel wind. I covered about 3 miles in the safety of the woods before emerging on the westernside up on the edge of the hills. A rocky outcrop looked like it might provide some shelter and a place to rest the highway was probably 4 miles south from this vantage point.
I found a suitable snowdrift in the outcrop and hollowed out a cavity, pulling the snow in around me as I cocooned myself, the wind would drift the snow to conceal me with in a couple of hours and the snow would provide another layer of insulation to help keep me warm.
I settled down for my first night in the wilderness wondering about the colony, what they would be doing right now sitting around their warm fires. Muy thoughts skipped ahead to the following day, what would I find in the city I susected most of it would have been scavanged but there was alway hope.
The woods offered good concealment also event though they were more like a petrified forest, the trunks and branches barren, tall and dark in the gloom.
In the past people would have navigared by the stars and moon but those were luxuries long since lost since the dusty haze kept shielded the celestial map from my eyes. The furs felt warm and snug and the hood keeped my ears warm and muffed the cruel wind. I covered about 3 miles in the safety of the woods before emerging on the westernside up on the edge of the hills. A rocky outcrop looked like it might provide some shelter and a place to rest the highway was probably 4 miles south from this vantage point.
I found a suitable snowdrift in the outcrop and hollowed out a cavity, pulling the snow in around me as I cocooned myself, the wind would drift the snow to conceal me with in a couple of hours and the snow would provide another layer of insulation to help keep me warm.
I settled down for my first night in the wilderness wondering about the colony, what they would be doing right now sitting around their warm fires. Muy thoughts skipped ahead to the following day, what would I find in the city I susected most of it would have been scavanged but there was alway hope.