Andrew: Anything we know is a few days old at this stage too. There might be nothing and nobody left.

Steve looks at the pile of damp sticks they are stacking up. It’s a bad idea to light a fire so close to the town, even though it was technically safer at night.

The swarms were now unpredictable and he wonders what he should do next. Help them?

Judging by their inability to even light a fire they didn’t seem to have many skills he could use, not exactly warriors or craftsmen either. The skills required to survive in the world all of a sudden got downgraded back to the more basic but relatively difficult tasks that humanity had left behind as it seemingly advanced. The ability to grow wheat, grind it and make