Moving Forward

Exactly as the title says, I'm moving on this week. I finally settled down and had another doctor check up on the baby. Dr. Svodoba was nice enough to do so. She's always been a great help to me and my family, and is one of the few people I think can be trustworthy. Despite her being a Judge, despite whatever hangups she has concerning Ashagi, she knows when to put that aside for the sake of caring for her patients. It's that kind of thought that I want to emulate and instill in Mitka and any other medic under my wing.

Sister D played a hand in calming me further when she gave a few words of wisdom. I explained my anxieties about the baby and possibly losing it. She suggested my fears are likely just an issue of trust. I don't trust my body's ability to carry a healthy child after losing the last child to it. Part of me even questioned my faith. Was it wrong for me to be happy for the miracles around me? For Adagio and this impossible little boy I'm carrying?

You still on about that?!

No. I should be happy. My parents would want me to be happy if they could see me now. I need to start believing that.

Damn right.

Finally, you're getting it.

Being happy ain't a freakin' sin.

With the UAC keeping everyone out during the cleanup, the Pack's more or less homeless. I move some supplies out during the evacuation, but nowhere near enough for all of us. 

I had a lovely beach home I could fly and relax at, but not so for my beloved family. 

Some tarp and various old cloth; a few small firearms and one box of ammo; some small crates of medicine and supplies; and a crate of useful worn tools were all I managed to hoard and hide in the beaches just under the bridge near Apoc.

Kayko did some scouting at my request and found an abandoned shack on a half sunken barge. I'm usually in the swamps a lot growing or harvesting medicinal plants, but I noticed the rundown shack and other rubbish out there. I'd never investigated them however as the need was not there.

Kayko, Jiea, and I carried the crates over once they were dug up to the new place. It was a mostly quiet transport until we found a couple there. Apparently tending to wounds after they were attacked. Kayko and the others seem poised to kill them, but given that we don't know who or what's out there, I didn't want to make enemies for now reason. Nish and Jia-Li were the names given, and I learned from Jia-Li that they had run into a large wolf and possibly Dregs that attacked them.

The Pack Shack

While the aspect of having to share the limited resources of the untainted swamps with the Dregs bothered me enough, there was more. Jia-Li and Nish had run into Adagio when they were attacked. From the sounds of it she was harmed as well, but told them to leave while she stayed behind. I have no idea what she was doing in the swamps nor why she would stay behind after being injured, but we found no sign of her. Just as I turn a leaf to relax and trust things a bit more, this happens and I question life all over again.