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the sun which had set hours ago had left it as dark as it could get without cloud cover.
    Knowing what to watch for, he could see satellites and the International Space Station go overhead. Standing in silence, he wondered what the men and women who had been stranded up there were thinking. They knew earth was dead and that no one down here could reach them. No one left had the knowledge to send anything into space.
    “The poor bastards,” he whispered while looking upward.
    He’d almost forgotten the binoculars around his neck. He took them off and handed them to Monica. “I brought these up for you guys. They’re pretty good, but not at night. But if you see lights in the distance, you’ll be able to get a good look before they get close.”
    “What do you think happened to them, Mr. Saunders? You think they’ll be okay?” Monica asked before he headed back down. He’d asked her to call him “Jerry” like everyone else, but she insisted on calling him Mr. Saunders.
    “I don’t know, Monica,” he said, carefully saying what would least bother this sensitive young lady. “Jeff is a good man with street smarts and Tony is tough for a guy his size.
    “I’m sure they probably just ran into some trouble and they’ll show up tomorrow if they don’t show up here yet tonight.” This seemed to calm her worries and she took the binoculars and looked around then up at the stars. “I never saw the stars like this when I was growing up. They’re beautiful,” she said with a little bit of awe in her voice.
    “Well, if you start feeling tired, make sure you climb up and down the stairway some,” he instructed. “Keep an eye out and if you see or hear anything, make sure to lock the hatch on your way down and wake up everyone.”
    “Yes, sir,” she said, still looking through to binoculars.
    “Wake up Randy in two hours. You’ll probably have to shake him some because he’s a heavy sleeper, and make sure he gets out of bed, because he will fall back asleep on you.”
    “Okay. I will. Good night,” she said as he climbed back down the hatchway and down the spiral staircase. Kellie had stopped humming as he passed by her door and he hoped she had pleasant dreams.
    Reaching the main floor, the boys were still playing their games and the two older men were reading. Jerry picked up the remote for the TV to turn on the movie but his heart wasn’t into it. He turned the remote over in his hands and popped the batteries out and then put them back in. After a few minutes of thought he just blurted it out. “Tomorrow, we’re going to take the truck and go looking for Jeff and Tony.”
    There, he said it. The decision was made.
    It hadn’t been a good evening and despite making the decision to search in the morning, he didn’t foresee it being a good night to sleep.

Chapter 2
    J erry rolled over and looked at the clock. The time read 20 minutes after five in the morning. He knew Kellie would be down to wake him up in about 25 minutes like he’d asked, so he decided to get up now and save her the trouble. He wasn’t sleeping very well anyhow. He threw off the covers and pulled on the same jeans he’d worn yesterday. He skipped putting on socks and just slipped his feet into the same worn corduroy slippers he’d worn for the past three years.
    He pulled on a clean tee shirt and a red flannel shirt and made sure he turned off the alarm before he left the room. He had set the alarm everyday for the past 10 or 15 years, but could only remember a handful of times where he hadn’t awakened before it went off. For a moment he wondered if keeping track of time even mattered anymore. With most of the world dead, did it really matter if it was 6 a.m. or 6:15? He ran his fingers through his hair and decided it wasn’t worth thinking about.
    It was very quiet in the shelter this early in the morning. He’d noticed how without all the modern conveniences running like he’d had in the farmhouse the silence could almost