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environment.  Even though fossil fuel use had been totally eliminated, they still felt the human population was a scourge on the planet because of all the waste they created.  By the time the government had figured it out, it was too late.  The virus was already in place and had already begun infecting humans. 
    “I was stationed in Germany at the time.  We were put on immediate lockdown.  When David arrived back at his home base, he was immediately placed under arrest and quarantine.  They didn’t want the world to know.  He wasn’t allowed to call anyone.  Two days later they arrested me because I had been in contact with him while he was investigating the village. 
    “I would like to say that we made a daring escape and were able to get out but it wasn’t that way.  In two weeks everyone was dead.  I was locked up and there was no way out. David was in a similar situation, but luckily one of the guards was kind enough to release him before he died.  We still don’t know why we are immune but apparently about two percent of the population is. 
    “As you know, David is a pilot and he was able to fly one of the Solar Force helicopters from his base in Kenya to where I was stationed in Germany.  It took him about three days to make it.  I had some water in my cell but no food.  I had almost given up when he showed up and freed me.  After that, we roamed around all of Africa and Europe for over two years.  Things are about as bad over there as they are over here.”
    Marcus spoke up and said, “I figured it would be better over there because they don’t have the dinosaurs roaming around like North and South America has.”
    Savvy had perked up in the backseat and was listening intently to their whole conversation.  She was very quiet and Marcus figured that everything that had happened had her somewhat rattled.
    “Well…” she started again. “That’s what we thought but we were wrong.  The huge preserve that Canada had was nothing compared to the ones they had set up in Africa and Russia.
    ‘We flew around a lot over there but we had to finally quit that because we started to run across people with all sorts of armaments.  We came close to getting shot down twice.
    “We discussed it several times then we decided that we needed to come home to the States to see if we could find you.  We figured you had survived also.  David wanted to fly one of the solar jets over here but I kept telling him that we would be flying blind and there was no telling how bad it was over here.  After discussing several options, David pointed out that if we couldn’t find a place to land we could always bail out and parachute to safety.  So we took a chance and flew over here.”
    “Were you able to land?” asked Marcus.
    “Yes. We landed and hid the plane.  We knew there were probably more weapons over here so we decided not to chance it and we stayed on the ground.  We landed at LAX and that was a mistake.  Los Angeles is just a big parking lot.  It took us four days just to get out of L.A.,” she said.
    She continued telling about their travels in Canada and the U. S. for a while.  By this time, they were out of the Nantahala River Gorge and were travelling toward the Tennessee and the Ocoee River.  The dinosaur migration had spread out so Marcus didn’t think it would be too much of a worry going through the tight areas around the river.
    After she finished, she wanted to know what Marcus had been doing since the virus outbreak. He started from the beginning and told her a lot of what had happened since their parents had died.  He mostly only touched on the major events. 
    It brought back some emotions thinking about being thirteen and totally alone.  Marcus had grown up a lot in the last five years.  In the middle of his story he had to stop and mention how beautiful the Ocoee River was.  He thought it was some of the most picturesque scenery he had ever seen. 
    By the time he had