Since The Dead Rose

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>265 days ago</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> the dead rose.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>245 days ago my colony formed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>67 days ago someone I trusted stole our supplies and let the dead in.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>2 days after I leave my colony in search of life-saving medication for my best friend I wake up in the trunk of a car put there by </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>three men claiming to have saved my life.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Time is running out to save my friend made more difficult by my </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>three self-appointed overbearing bodyguards</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> who think they saved my life when they unknowingly ruined my mission. At least I have Buddy the one-eyed dog I rescue from someone who shouldn't care for animals.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Griffin has the air of a leader and the gall to handcuff himself to me in order to keep me with them. He says it's for my own safety but I suspect it's really because I tried to steal their car and destroyed their food supplies in the process. It's not my fault he left the keys in the ignition. </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And now I don't even get my own tent.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>William is the kind sensitive type with the gentle touch who becomes my rock. He's almost too sweet for his own good but can become the </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>deadliest man alive</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> especially when danger has a habit of finding me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Max is the wild card and the craziest man I've ever met running on </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>adrenaline and bad decisions</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. It combats with my own non-adrenaline and impulsive actions.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They drag me across dangerous lands and </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>protect me like I'm their own.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> They force themselves into my mission even though they're better off leaving me to the rotters.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I need to go but I want to stay. Yet I can't seem to get away from them even when I try.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>And time is running out.</em></strong></p>