"I'm more worried about making it to the summer this year," Alison admitted. "If a lot of other people get together then they could go around taking everything we have and doing whatever they want, and what can we do? We can't call the police if it's just one in a few hundred. It's all going to break down unless the only place that got hit is right around here and everyone else is okay." She shivered, and told herself it was from the cold. "We need to get the heater working right or build a fire or do<em>something</em>. It's cold in here."<br/><br/>She wished she had more skills that would be useful, but she couldn't think of anything. She was just a college student breezing through, not even sure what she'd wanted to do as a job. She hadn't gone camping since she was a little girl and didn't know the first thing about putting machines together and making them work with alternate power sources.