Mikayla blushed a little at the praise Aerius gave her. It felt good that he was proud of her. It had seemed bleak to find any of Peep's family but she and Tara had. Mikayla was glad about that, it would saddened her greatly if the little boy had been all alone in the world.<br/><br/>"Thank you."<br/><br/>Mikalya replied, taking the compliment this time. She sang along on the radio to the song. For a little while, she forgot how awful the world was starting to become. Of course, she always remembered it when they stopped to try and help someone. It was becoming a long day. She realized the road to Chicago would take days, if not weeks, at the rate they were going. Before the outbreak, it only took hours to get home from Columbus. Today, though, they had headed out in the early morning and it was now nighttime. While their city wasn't as ruined as the state's capital, it didn't look exactly like home. It looked people had packed up and left in a hurry. Taking only what they could fit in their cars...It was a little creepy, like they had entered a ghost town.<br/><br/>Mikayla nodded her head to Aerius.<br/><br/>"I hope my mom stayed put."<br/><br/>Mikayla followed Aerius, with gun in hand. She recognized some of the dead on the ground. People who worked in stores, a schoolteacher, her parents' next door neighbor. This was so hard and she had to try and steel herself so she didn't cry.<br/><br/>"Mom, are you okay?"<br/><br/>Mikayla called out when they reached the hatch to the bunker where her mother had been hiding out.