Bethany looked at Adam. "It had to be done, so I figured I'd just help you get it over with." Her voice was quiet, forlorn. Under the layer of strength she'd built to handle this situation, this whole damn fiasco, she was trembling. Gripping the inside of the door, she gritted her teeth. This would make her stronger. A better person.<br/><br/>"What are we going to do?" she asked Adam quietly. She looked at him again, her eyes searching his profile. Then she answered herself, "I guess we'll just have to keep ourselves alive."<br/><br/>She gazed out over the rolling plains, vast and empty even in the gathering darkness.