I woke up and knew something was off. It was the eerie silence surrounding me, enveloping me, that made me afraid. The last time it was this quiet, my neighborhood was flattened and I only survived by huddling in the keep and waited for the screaming and crashing to end. Then it was silent. Dark. Consuming.

“Oh hell. Not again,” I thought to myself, and tried to sit up. My left arm seemed frozen ...