John was walking through the city, stepping over random debris that had been left by looters when the shield had come down. He had a messenger bag slung over his shoulder. In it was his laptop which he had outfitted with some solar panels he found in the city, a bag of stale chips, probably one of the last, and a copy of his favorite book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. He looked around. He was near a small house on a hill and the sun was going down. He had been searching the forest for any clues on how to bring down the shield but he hadn't found any. He was a long way from his apartment where he had lived with his sister, Lily. It was then, as some of the last rays of sun hit Redbridge that he spotted something. No. Someone. Someone climbing on top of a telephone pole. "Hey!" he shouted. "What're you doing?" he asked, intrigued by one of the first people he'd seen all day.