Henri was happy to say his resent foray for supplies had gone off without a hitch and had netted him some dry goods, two strong box style ice chests to keep it safe from moisture, three digital camera of along with five pads that could store a Terra of data and a lovely pair of household size solar panels to charge the batteries with.
He'd managed to cut the cell tower lock and replace them with his own to facilitate entry and egress.
At night he spent a few hours before full darkness reviewing his footage and making observational notes careful to keep his illuminate signature down so he didn't attract the living.
He had already seen that to his east at what appeared to be a public building; perhaps a school that here was a group in the process of homesteading. To the north-west was a smaller group of people that were it seeded in the process of establishing a scavenger lair.
The two groups presently worked their own area but soon might clash, too bad for the scavengers because Henri's observations so far gave the Homesteads higher marks for method, execution and technology; they used drones as scouts and had a machine that he balled Babe after Paul Bunyan's mythical Ox.
He knew that he'd soon need to join one group over the other and leaned strongly towards the school but he needed at least another week before he thought he'd have enough data to support his findings so till then he was a solo act.
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Tina had spent her time since joining the odd group she was part of fixing the school as a stand alone structure or moving every usable item from the storage buildings taking extra care to transport the trailered two seat amphibious sport plane.
Sure she had no idea of how to fly it but if the group could come across a living pilot they'd have an ability to fly it in any direction for about 700 miles and return with reconnaissance. It was also an advantage of modern society she hated letting go without a struggle.
She'd basically taken over the building logistics section using the Super's office as her bedroom.
She wanted to replace all the lighting with LED to conserve fuel and written up a simple explanation of how much fuel could be saved.
She had also did a cursory estimate of water, food and other needs along with a potential infrastructure failure in four years without parts or outside supplies.
