I felt the first rays of sun strike my face early in the morning. I also felt for the last few minutes that someone or someone’s were standing right in front of me. I acted like I was asleep and hoped that I would hear something important…

Alas! They knew I was awake and prodded me with a stick and one of them said, “Hey what are you doing sitting here all night?”

I opened one eye and looked at four boys, they were all carrying hockey sticks and one had a regular tree limb and was poking me with it. I smiled at them and said, “I am just curious and wanted to know what you are up to? I also did n0t want to bring all those others you see behind me and cause issues!” Then I said, “Where did you came from?”

The boys all looked at me and then the one who poked me with a stick said, “Over the hill that way (As he pointed!) is our old orphanage! ” Then in response to a unasked question he said, “There were 507 or us originally, now 312 of us are left! But our numbers are stable now, as we have learned to survive!”

I looked around and realized it was a beautiful day. I looked back at the group still sleeping in the distance and then looked at the little hive of kids bustling around like bees, behind the four boys who were checking me out. I knew right then that these boys did not need to be mingled with the group behind me. The group behind me was the old and the group in front of me was the new…

I also thought about the boy that said, “Are You God?” I knew he needed to be here with this group and so did about forty or so more needed to be here with them also…

I knew that I would be bringing hundreds over the next few months to this place to build the population and give mankind a good start again. I found what I was looking for. I found that spark, that hope, that newest development and I found real future possibility for mankind. I found children that survived and learned from that survival…

As the sun came up and the day became bright and clear! I saw now what I waited to see…

These boys in front of me, they stood there not scared and not worried. They had weapons and they had confidence. I knew what then had to be done…

I stood up and looked at the boys. I then told them that they need to go back to there home. I would be back later and with me will be 40 to 50 more kids. I would also bring other things to help them and that I would be coming back as the months went by. I would be bringing more and more kids to help grow this place…

The boys for some reason did not question me and they talked to themselves for just a minute and then said, “Yes Sir! We are going to trust you! Do not let us down, as many adults have in the past!”

I looked at them and said, “I am not just any adult!”

Then as the boy who poked me with a stick turned and took off for the hive as I now call it!

He yelled back at me, “I know who you are!”

Then he ran like the wind, with the other three following him, as they disappeared into a pipe that was sticking out of the ground nearby…

I turned and looked at the valley behind me and started to walk toward the followers of lost sheep that I had to deal with now. I had to separate the kids from the sheep and allow the kids to have a life again…

Stryker…