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It's been almost a week. I don't know how much longer I can stay confined to our apartment anymore. I have to see the outside. I want to know how bad it is out there.

[Jordyn sighs]

Besides all that, we've almost run out of fresh food. I don't know how much will still be good, but maybe we can find something at the grocery store down the street. And there's always preserved food. We can't live on the chips and candy Gramps keeps Corner Convenience stocked with.

The silence is still unsettling, but I'm trying to force myself to get used to it. I have a feeling there will be a whole lot more of it in the days to come. I'm going to sleep out here on the roof tonight.

My one comfort is that the lights still work. I can still look out over Initium as the sun sets and the neon lights slowly come to life. I've always done that, as long as I can remember. Those lights are like a visual lullaby to me at this point. A reminder that everything is going to be okay. That life will continue.

Still, it's so uncomfortably quiet out here.

No. No. Stop focusing on that.

[Silence falls for almost a full minute]

I can still see the Storyteller's Theatre. It didn't fall, surprisingly. Perception Laboratories did. It's strange, seeing the sky without one of the two tallest buildings ever built.

A whole lot of other buildings fell too. I hardly see a thing in the western horizon anymore. There are a couple lights telling me something survived at least, but not much else. It's just...dark. Makes me wonder what it would be like to be over there. Would be as dark as the time Initium's power went out? Darker?

Maybe I can convince Niki to go outside with me in the morning. We can explore, restock on food, maybe look for other people.

We can make a day out of it. Do something fun. Just because we're alone now doesn't mean we're completely out of luck. I mean, we still have each other. We still have Gramps.

Even if he refuses to acknowledge the fact things have changed.

I wonder if I could coax Gramps into coming with us. Probably not. He's just as stubborn as Niki was when we would argue as kids. I mean, Niki got it from somewhere.

Anyway, I'm going to sleep now. I want to be up early so there'll be plenty of time to explore tomorrow.

Goodnight.

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