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It had been two months, one week, and five days since Claire Beauchamp came face to face with another living human being. Despite what most would believe, she was content with this fact - after five years of living through an apocalypse, and doing it all on her own, she was used to the aching, bone-deep loneliness.
Surviving is one thing; surviving completely on one's own is quite another.
But Claire had been alone even before the apocalypse begun, and there was no one left in this world that she truly cared for, so she kept to her solitary ways. Until one unusually warm summer afternoon, while foraging for medicinal herbs between the cracks in the pavement, she noticed the boy behind the tree.