15- 50,000 Volts

“Don’t move.”

Liz had been picking up sticks for a fire, along with two of the girls when she heard the gruff voice. Dropping the sticks, she raised her hand and turned around slowly but saw nobody behind her.

Whoever it was, was well camouflaged between the thick tree trunks and the earthen covered floor.

She closed her eyes and silently prayed that her friends were safe and unfound. Her silent prayer was unanswered when she saw them walking out of the thinning trees with two of the helmets, suit-wearing government troops, pointing guns at them, seconds later.

Randall and Matt were closely escorted too, by another two, pointing guns at them from behind and a wide rotten grin from Polo, following behind.

‘Kia, switch on,’ she instructs the system that she had switched off earlier that day. In the past, Kia would automatically come on whenever she sensed body heat but after coming across so many half-starved and crazed humans, Liz instructed her to never automatically switch