[i][color=39b54a]Somewhere in the state of Missouri.[/color][/i]

Jon woke up rather suddenly, as was the norm with him, and he spent a few moments silently just listening to get his sense acclimated to what was going on.

Nothing.

And that was good.  Jon didn’t sleep much, and when he did, he generally woke up immediately worried that something had happened.  He moved slightly and watched his breath appear in front of him before being fully stolen away by the cold.  Yes, it was winter, it was cold, and there was snow, but truth be told, Jon preferred the winter over the oppressive heat.  The bottom line was that at some point, you were stuck with the heat and unless you had an A/C unit, which few survivors tended to have these days, you were just stuck.  You can bundle up in the cold, dress up, start a fire, or get out of the cold sometimes.  The heat just stayed right there with you, even if you were naked.  And then, you still had to CARRY everything that you couldn’t wear.

Fuck the heat.  

Fuck all of this.

He looked around, seeing that most of the people were still asleep.  He could barely hear the watch walking off in the distance.  The fact that they were barely audible was nice, but that was another thing about the snow.  The downside, it left tracks.

He shook his head as he looked around, spotting most of the group as they slept.  Truth be told, most of the group wasn’t worth their weight in piss.  A handful have already been lost since they left the CDC center, and while some cried and some loathed or harbored resentment, Jon simply didn’t care.   People died every day before all of this.  

Just another day at the office.   

Truth be told, Jon would be better off by himself, or maybe with one or two of these people, but Jon wasn’t in a rush to leave for his own reasons.  He could later, tomorrow, or next week.  There was no rush to part ways. 

As he sat up and got ready for the day, he realized how sore and stiff his shoulder was.   It was healing, but it was annoyingly taking longer than usual.  As Jon finished getting his things together and doing basic function checks to his weapons, he looked around and decided to let the people sleep for a few more minutes while walking over to whoever was on watch.