"Not in so many words but I'm aware anyway. I just am not real big into fear, so I don't make my decisions based on it," Sepphy told him with a smile. She did seem to create the perfect picture of a girl before the zombies happened. She smiled, she was healthy, she paid attention to her appearance, the list went on. She didn't have the haunted, haggard look that a lot of survivors tended to have, particularly ones who had to grow up too soon.
"Specifically - forward. I feel like people had to scramble, and they did a great job setting up shops around the city. People had to ride out hard times, and that was all fine and good and of course our struggles as creatures on a planet like this are far from over, but I also feel like everyone has stagnated. They either clung hard to old ways and did their best to shove that square peg into the new round hole, or they hunkered down and looked after number one. All of which I get."
She gave him a little smile, this one ever so slightly touched with sadness. "But it's not a long term plan by any means. It's not how humanity gets through this. Just holding on for dear life and not planning a wider world isn't the way to go. It'll just mean we die out slowly and divides between pockets of civilization get wider. People need to start remembering that humanity isn't a sit on their asses kind of species. So the times, right now they feel like they're flat footed, and it's time to start walking a path again."