Omega

Who: Lilly and Open
When: August 12
Where: In town on her way home
What: First sighting of 'rabid' fox?

After taking Charisma for her own walk around town, Lilly took her back home and decided to go out on her own for a little while. She wanted to enjoy the peace and quiet of the woods without hearing her dog barking at everything she thought she could see, hear, and smell. She seemed to be extra jittery lately, as if somehow knowing what was going on. For all Lilly knew, the dog could. She didn't exactly know the limits of what dogs could and couldn't know.

She had been out in the woods for a little while when she noticed something distressing: she hadn't heard any wildlife in a little while. The woods used to be filled with all different sorts of sounds from different animals, mostly birds and the like, but she hadn't heard anything today. Was the radiation starting to get into the valley after all?

She turned around to start walking out when she finally saw and animal, a fox. However, she only felt relieved for about three seconds until she got a closer look at it. Without knowing exactly what else it could be, the animal looked rabid to her. Once it got her in its sights, it started to run after her. Lilly did the only thing that she could think of: she ran. After living through the end of the world, she was not going to get rabies or whatever from a damn fox.

Once she hit the edge of the woods, she couldn't hear the animal anymore, and turned back to look for it. It wasn't there. Still, not one to take any chances, she quickly made her way out of the woods and started on her way home. She had fallen more than once and was scraped up, and now her limp, which she tried desperately to hide, was very prominent. Running for your life faster than you really should run with old injuries will cause them to flare up again.