I topped a hill one day and found before me a huge field of drain pipes of all sizes. I mean concrete drain pipes, metal drain pipes and plastic drain pipes. Some as big around as your arm and they went all the way to pipes big enough to stand upright in. They were from short in length to hundreds of meters in length. They were unattached and some were attached. To the first glance it looked as if it was a huge pipework network…

As far as I could see it was a graveyard for pipes of all sizes…

Then I spotted a little child and he had ducked down inside on of the pipes. I stood perfectly still and did not try to look directly at anything in particular. I used my peripheral vision and then I saw hundreds of little kids all over the place amongst the drain pipes…

They looked like rats staying out of sight and only show long enough to get to the next pipe…

I sat on the hill and watched! I saw that there was a method to the madness and I saw that these kids were storing food in certain pipes and other types of supplies in other pipes. I saw pipes being blocked at certain places and I saw pipes being actually moved to create homes for the kids. It was a long and arduous work and they seemed to be very organized. I could tell that they were building a nest and or fortress. They were making a home to protect from the world outside…

I was amazed that children could do this and then I thought about all that I could do as a child and adults never cared of thought it mattered. We adults do not give kids credit where credit is due…

Then I saw the pile of bodies…

Actually two piles of bodies. One was a pile of dead Zombies and the other was a pile of dead children. It was the waste area and you could tell as the battles were fought and the dead mounted up. They had a system down to get the bodies away from the living area…

I was glad to see that the Zombie pile was three times bigger than the kid pile, but the numbers was depressing and at that I wandered just how many kids really were in this field of drain pipes?

I watched the little kids scurrying around and as the sun set, I decided to stay right were I was at and watch as the field woke in the morning. I was in no hurry and this interested me. Besides I had a huge entourage behind me a mile or so back and I was not sure I wanted the two groups to even meet. Maybe these kids are better off and will survive to repopulate the earth. They definitely seem more industrious than the ones following me like lost sheep. They were more like ants than sheep…

As it got dark, I looked behind me and saw campfires dotting the valley and as I looked to the field in front of me. I saw smoke, but no visible flame. They were heating and cooking just like the ones behind me, but they have learned how to keep it under cover so to say…

I fell asleep as I was thinking about the difference between the two groups…

Stryker