"Aftermath"

A post-apocalyptic tale.

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In the future, a virus known as the Pox has nearly wiped out Human life. Additionally, global warming -- which had only gotten worse through the 21st century -- has left the locale of our story, Greenland, free of ice and snow and now partially covered in grasslands and maturing forests.

One morning, a girl, Annie, 15, discovers a castaway from a ship destroyed by a storm on the shore below her village. He is taken in by the village, following a period of quarantine on the chance that he is infected with any of a number of infectious diseases that have returned to plague Humanity.

King, 42, is a wanderer, moving from place to place every few years. He joined the crew of a slave transport ship specifically to mutiny and hijack the vessel. The intention was to sail to the English Isles where they hoped to find freedom for all.

Instead, the ship was ripped apart by a fierce storm, sinking with many or most of its passengers. Initially, it was thought that King might be the only survivor; several bodies were found in the days following King's arrival but no other living survivors were.

Days later, it was discovered that a female survivor was in the hands of slavers, who had tried to sell her to a nearby village. Four people – King, Annie, Bran (Annie’s father), and Paul (who has an intimate interest in Annie) – took to the water in small sailboats to rescue her.

And that's our story thus far...