That figured. Most people came in with friends, or at least people they knew. Bea had even tried to get Ty to come with her initially, but he was dead set that he wasn’t done in the city yet and she wasn’t about to argue or guilt him into come with her. “Least you had someone to watch your back from the city to here.” She’d been on her own and it had been the most stressful trip she’d taken so far.
“Maybe somewhere in the middle of the country. Iowa, or one of those other flyover states,” Bea joked. She didn’t honestly think there was anywhere that hadn’t been touched. The outbreak had spread so quickly, and there hadn’t been much of a way to fight it. At least not one she’d seen. It could be the government was keeping some plan under wraps, but she doubted they had that much intelligence.
Bea shrugged a shoulder, brushing off the first statement. “Not as long a some,” she replied with a twitch of her lips. “I don’t know all the ins and outs yet either. But you should probably learn the shower rules, if you haven’t already.” Ten minute hot showers would have been torture to her before the end of the world, now they seemed more than long enough. “Oh, and watch your things. There’s a set of teens around here that have sticky fingers.” She didn’t know if all of them stole things, but she knew from what others had told her that at least a few of them did, it only made since to assume that it was the entire group.
"Walking around this place to get a lay of the land doesn't hurt either. Took me fucking weeks to have everything sorted."