"I dunno... Yeah," I admit with a frown. I'm quiet for a moment, listening to our footsteps on the stairs, trying to figure out why it doesn't feel the same.

"Where the fuck is everybody?" Last time this happened, there only a few dozen people in the whole city, but these days, we're in the thousands. It's so fuckin' quiet, for all I fuckin' know, Mike and me are the only two left.