Brian looks out through the window as the others make their way through bowls of rice like hungry dogs around a solitary candle. The courtyard outside in the middle of the college grounds is empty and quiet, all residents of the college now securely hidden away inside the dorms and corridors for the night.

The power seems to have run out now with last night the last time the streetlamps were on. The city is pitch black now, and strangely quiet. The darkness almost like a blanket of silence over the entire region.

The colonel has ordered patrols of the perimeter to make sure the walls were secure. He felt he was getting rusty standing around for the past few days so took Rob with him. Kenny and Tommy were sent to check the barriers and the Sergeant, Riley and