I nodded as she spoke, my new found joy taking a swift kick in the gut when she said she hadn't found anyone else. But shouldn't I have figured it as such? Shouldn't I have expected my joy to come individually wrapped, not thrown onto me in bulk? It was only a minute ago that the thought of another human in the school seemed perposterous. Now, it came to life. 

"I haven't found anyone either," I said, feeling the need to add it. "But I did find an area in the vent that runs above the street and you can look down and have an overview of it. You've probably seen what the halls are like but to see it from above..." my voice trailed off, the thought of the scene I described was enough to catch my breath. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. Hordes of students frothing at the mouth, snapping their deformed jaws at any sound the heard, skreeching and howling for no foreseeable reason. It seemed as if it truly were hell on earth. 

"I was so certain everyone was dead. Or whatever those things are. I've seen tons of people we know just wandering aimlessly as their flesh rotted away. Sometimes I can't believe it," I finished, my previous smile now completely transformed into a frown. "I really don't know how long we can live like this."