Chapter 10 (Can't Sleep Like This)

Chapter 10: Can't Sleep Like This

Rudolph Alinsky

Estimated, May 2025

About 36 months after outbreak

Oregon

Season 1

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"I heard what she told you."

"I know you did, Airi."

"Juna's sleeping now, you can tell me what we're going to do."

"I don't know what we're going to do. We can't leave, you're in no condition too. If it wasn't for these people I don't know what would have happened." I saw Airi's face fall but she looked angry. She wasn't angry at me, but I would have been okay if she was.

"We don't know what will happen if we stay here. We have a better chance out there, I'm fine, I can make it. I can't be the thing slowing you down, it's gonna get Juna killed and she hasn't done anything wrong."

"Airianna, you're my daughter too. I'm not putting neither one of you in danger. Even if you had done something wrong, which you hadn't, I would never put you in that position and you know that."

"I just wanna go home. I miss Ethan, Khai, Evelyn, and the others. With or without Timothy it's still home, you said it yourself, our family is there."

I pulled Airianna onto my lap. I ran my fingers through her hair as I felt her start to fall asleep. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what was right, what would keep us alive. I hadn't seen anything bad happen at this place with my own eyes, maybe Aubrey was exaggerating, or trying to scare us off, but I couldn't shake the uneasy feeling. It rattled in my brain like an infection.