It was beyond me too, but you pick things up fast. I'll bet you could, if you suddenly had to. If I could, anyone can.
[ There's a pause as she tries to think of the best way to word this without getting into too much detail. He's about to eat, after all, and nothing says "lost appetite" like a zombie devouring brains. ]
It was... a plague. Some people, like me, were immune, but the rest turned... like, feral? And attacked healthy people. So society screeched to a halt. We'd bust into abandoned homes and take supplies, so that's mostly the type of foraging I'm good at. A lot of stuff like meat and whatever went bad, but our society made food with lots of preservatives too, so I ate a lot of cereal, granola bars, snack cakes. And stuff out of cans.
[ Because of course Mike had a Swiss Army knife. He was all Captain Prepared with his guns and everything. Meanwhile Tessa had just had a backpack of clothes. ]
So... yeah. That's why I'll eat anything. And I'm still alive.
[ She gives an exaggerated thumbs up with both hands that's meant to read as sarcastic. She knows she was in a shitty situation and she can really only half-joke about it. ]
But that's why I don't want to go home. There's nothing back for me there. Well, I mean, I wish someone I knew back there was here, because it's better than being stuck there just trying to survive. I hope he falls through a rift too.
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Date: 2018-05-21 11:19 pm (UTC)[ There's a pause as she tries to think of the best way to word this without getting into too much detail. He's about to eat, after all, and nothing says "lost appetite" like a zombie devouring brains. ]
It was... a plague. Some people, like me, were immune, but the rest turned... like, feral? And attacked healthy people. So society screeched to a halt. We'd bust into abandoned homes and take supplies, so that's mostly the type of foraging I'm good at. A lot of stuff like meat and whatever went bad, but our society made food with lots of preservatives too, so I ate a lot of cereal, granola bars, snack cakes. And stuff out of cans.
[ Because of course Mike had a Swiss Army knife. He was all Captain Prepared with his guns and everything. Meanwhile Tessa had just had a backpack of clothes. ]
So... yeah. That's why I'll eat anything. And I'm still alive.
[ She gives an exaggerated thumbs up with both hands that's meant to read as sarcastic. She knows she was in a shitty situation and she can really only half-joke about it. ]
But that's why I don't want to go home. There's nothing back for me there. Well, I mean, I wish someone I knew back there was here, because it's better than being stuck there just trying to survive. I hope he falls through a rift too.