The day the world ends start just like every other day
Kate watched her walk away. The little girl she had met so many years ago had grown. She watched her adjust the pack and the spear as she walked as nonchalantly as Kate might have swung her purse from one shoulder to the other while talking on her cellphone in the old world. She thought about her own sons and how they had grown up in this new world as well. Especially Scott. For Kate, it had been a few hard years after forty something better ones. For Scott and Ham, it was over a fourth of their lives. This new world had robbed them of what their lives could have been, but it also gave them a chance to shape it into what they want it to be. That was reason enough to find out what was on the other side of the walls.
This is what happens when the dead don't stay dead