Miss Holloway's death was like a gust of wind that blew through the base and quickly faded away.
Compared to gossip, people were more concerned with having full bellies, warm clothes, and personal safety.
When the ground grew warm again, Evelyn Ford washed all her dirty clothes and hung them out to dry.
Ronan Kendrick said the nearby game had been completely hunted, so he would have to go farther out. Besides, the base now had requirements for hunting—they wanted prey captured alive if possible, and the reward for a live catch had increased to nine hundred points.
When Ronan went out on these trips, he would sometimes be gone for three or four days, sometimes five or six.
The teams tilling the land grew larger by the day, and some of the wasteland outside the base was reclaimed for farming.
Evelyn brought Mina and Lola back home and, while she was at it, gave Quincy some life-saving medicine.
