Terra Nexus

Aryka Siring set the wheelbarrow down and wiped her brow with a sweat-damp cloth she had wrapped around a handle. She looked up at the late afternoon sky and sighed. It would be dark soon, especially since the hills rising to either side of the town meant night fell far too quickly, and being out after dark was even less intelligent than it had been a year ago. She looked around at the other scavengers. Old Harry and his son, Todd, were hauling timber out of the broken doors of the Home Depot. Mary and Tim were using shopping carts to gather more supplies from the supermarket. There were a dozen more people raiding the various stores in the shopping center but Aryka did not see anyone else. Armed lookouts, all cradling some form of hunting rifle, guarded the route everyone took to their "home."