Dead Cities and Deader Men (Operative Title) Day 5 of 30

 

Dead Cities and Deader Men (Operative Title)

Day 5 of 30

Posted 04/22/2020

 

“So, any questions to start with?”

“No, can I just watch for a while?”

Grunt. Back to the task of making sure nothing eats us or unexpected obstacles to go through or around. That is the major part of driving. Staying awake is a massive part of it also. If this child can keep two eyes open long enough to get a nap or two, will be worth the effort to show him anything at all.

“Look around, ask before you touch, and see what you can figure out.”

Back to monitoring the train and tracks, along with internal diagnostics on the stoves, internal air circulation, monitored sleep patterns and even continuous inventory of the rations and ammunitions. All a constant running status of the entire track and all its systems. Which is really what we Drivers do. Watch the Gunners use up the supplies we sign for, sitting around most of the time sleeping or getting off to each other’s sad comments, while we are in charge of ensuring we never stop moving outside of The City. Not moving is Not Alive. Not Alive is detrimental to the concept of getting too old to be sent and finally be able to find someone to settle down with in the space provided once too old to head out again.

Back to task at hand. Only like ten more days till we can pull into The Garage and this thing can shut down. Until then it will not, cannot stop moving. I cannot stop taking care of it. Now if only the others would just all lie down and do nothing for the rest of the mission, or just plug into their weapon mounts and stay there till needed, would be appreciated.

Check, all security hatches are secure. Could open, vent the air out, let the toxic in, take care of the headaches, then just drive on. Too much paperwork to fill out to explain so much ammo left, so few monsters taken out, more hassle than worth.

“You doing ok there watching the screens, got an idea what you are looking at?” See if Tail Gunner is still with it or not.

“Yes, little more stuff, but making some sense. That rock outside, see on the radar and the gun cameras, see with my eyes. Makes sense.”

“Ok, going to close mine for a few moments. Wake me if anything changes or is large outside.”

Recline the seat, close the eyes.