I didn't sleep very well last night because my neck was giving me trouble so I woke early and stretched out for a while. My body is weak from having been in a bed for three weeks straight. Once Lindsay woke up I tried to tell her what I was doing and had to write it because my voice still isn't working. It hurts just to open my mouth too far so I gave up trying. The first thing I did was take a walk around town to see what all had happened. Most of the houses on main street are damaged to some degree, a couple completely burnt to the ground. Grandma's house is one of the least damaged. Houses and buildings on the side streets vary in destruction from minimal damage to being leveled. It took about two minutes of walking the streets to conclude that I needed to move everyone out of town as soon as possible. The mood of the town isn't pleasant. I made sure to avoid talking to anyone else after I was chased by the first group I came upon. As soon as they noticed me a red aura sprang up around two of them. Balls of red energy flew towards me and exploded in a ball of fire where they landed. Luckily I was able to see the balls of energy and avoid them. Needless to say I didn't stay long. I swear I recognized a couple of them, but they didn't seem to recognize me nor want me around so I got out of there.
My house is relatively untouched. I guess we live far enough out of town that nobody really cares to come out here, although the front of the house does have some bullet holes in it and the front and side windows are cracked or shattered altogether. It is still an improvement on being in the center of town at Grandma's place. The windows need to be boarded up anyway so the missing windows don't matter. My only concern is that the place is made of wood if anyone got it in their head to set the house on fire for whatever reason. That isn't out of the question it would seem judging by what I saw in town.
As I suspected and hoped the water is working just fine. Lindsay has expressed her appreciation of it numerous times already. There isn't much food here except for what we brought with us. Tomorrow's chore is to fetch the rest of the food and supplies from Grandma's. The house needs a lot of work done to it too, but it'll be fine until tomorrow. Mary is already asleep with Grandma in her bedroom. She was a lot happier today now that we're home. The first night in weeks that she fell asleep without crying herself to sleep according to Lindsay. We have enough wood moved in to keep us warm tonight. That's another thing for tomorrow, stocking the basement with firewood. I'm going to move as much junk out of the basement as I can in order to fit more firewood down there so we don't have to walk outside as much to get it. There's so much to do. At least we're getting into Spring and the weather will be warming up.
I saw my neck in a mirror for the first time today. All the mirrors in Grandma's house were broken or taken down to keep them from falling down and hurting someone. I could feel the scar before now, but I didn't realize just how big it is. It starts behind my left ear and forks out across my neck. A couple of the lines extend all the way down to my chest. A few separate scars mark where I imagine shards of glass from the accident were stuck into me. I don't like to look at them, but I keep running my fingers over them anyway.
I thought about Jess a lot today. Thought about her sitting in her bedroom, scared of everything that's happening and scared for me. She worried enough about school, I don't want to think about how she's dealing with this. I'm not looking forward to her reaction when she sees my face either.
I didn't have any time to sit and reflect on what's going on, what little time I have had has produced nothing for answers and I won't have much time for sitting and reflecting for a long time yet. There's a lot to do to fix our living situation.
What is going on with the world?
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