Maddening Storm

Setting Plans In Motion 4

"I wonder how Irene and the rest of the group are doing?" Ella wondered out loud, and felt gleeful at the thought.

Since the start of the apocalypse, she'd been taking care of the three. While the rest of the world was in turmoil and people entered a killing frenzy for food and supplies, she kept them fed with the food cans in her backpack, sparing them from such an ordeal.

But now that they had been separated for a few days, the three would get a taste of true hunger.

"It's good for them to suffer a little. Only then, would they appreciate what I give them." Humming under her breath, Ella entered the mansion to begin the next step of her plan.

Meanwhile, a few miles from the Stone Mansion, a group of five were trudging through a swam. Their faces and clothes were coated in mud and vines wrapped around their wrists. Battered and on the brink of collapse, they crawled out of the sinking hole with haggard expressions.

"The he**! Wasn't this island supposed to be a paradise?" Celio